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Ozone forms by combining pollution with sunlight and warm temperatures.

The latest Utah news for Thursday morning, April 21, 2022

The same snow that’s helped wash away smog episodes along the Wasatch Front this winter has created a kind of pollution factory in the Uinta Basin.…

Smoke from the Dollar Ridge wildfire in eastern Utah spread throughout northern and central Utah on Friday and raised particulate pollution. Wildfire near…

The Utah Division of Air Quality is interviewing for a new staff position — a compliance officer based in the Uintah Basin.The basin contains thousands of…

Smoky September skies are dragging out a high-pollution trend that’s dogged Utah all summer.“This is really a bumper year for, for ozone,” said Bo Call,…

Federal regulators are giving states like Utah another year to sort out their ozone-pollution solutions.The U-S Environmental Protection Agency is…

Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee says oil and gas companies would be doing a lot more to clean up pollution if they knew they could avoid sanctions…

The American Thoracic Society is one of the organizations that has argued for years that less pollution would mean healthier Americans. The Environmental…

Salt Lake and Davis Counties logged their first Red Air Days of the summer season Wednesday.The Utah Division of Air Quality reported ozone levels as…

State regulators are forecasting increasing pollution over the next couple of days. It’s a sign that the ozone pollution season is getting underway and…

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy announced plans Wednesday to tighten limits on ground-level ozone pollution.“The science…