Air Quality

About 50 young people gathered for a climate strike at the Utah Capitol on March 3 to voice frustrations with the lack of climate legislation this past session and call for change.

After getting scaled back in a House committee last week, the Democrat-led bill has gathered bipartisan support.

Real talk: Utah’s air quality is not great. Especially in the winter. Why so brown, bromine?

Instead of taking a big bite out of emissions, Rep. Andrew Stoddard’s bill now focuses on studying the impact bromine has on air quality.

In this monthly news conference, the governor said he is for cleaning the state's air but against the medical use of magic mushrooms.

New research out of Canada shows fumes from diesel-powered vehicles (like the trucks and trains that come through Salt Lake City) could be affecting how brains function.

Among other ideas, the Senate passed a resolution on Monday to encourage Utahns to reduce vehicle idling.

Utah leaders are under pressure to end water diversions and enforce tougher restrictions in order save the drying Great Salt Lake.

Poet Elizabeth Cruz urges Utah to get involved and turn things around for the Great Salt Lake. “We’re only experts to destroy, to assassinate,” she sadly observes.

The demise of the Great Salt Lake and its potential impact on an 11-year-old girl is laid bare in an emotional short story written by playwright Elaine Jarvik.

A primer on understanding air quality categories in the DEQ’s health forecast and how the term “haze” may fit into it all.

More than five million people are projected to call Utah home by 2060.