Utah Department of Environmental Quality

Since 2019, there have been seven different releases of a special kind of firefighting foam at the airport. Officials stress they are always on the lookout for spills, with three fire stations on site, an operations team, as well as 37 spill kits spread across the airport for rapid response.

The Utah Investigative Journalism Project reviewed 174 reports made to the state spills database from 2019 through the first half of 2024 that specifically related to pollution of storm drains and some of the main surface waters that feed the Great Salt Lake.

There are currently only four dust monitoring sites at the Great Salt Lake, but “we need better data,” says the director of Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality.

The deadline for the latest round of funding is Jan. 9. Local transportation directors say electric buses work well, but not perfectly.

To clean the air, experts urge taking public transit, using clean energy — and spending political capital — with an Olympic deadline looming.

Utah Lake is a defining landmark of Provo but “people don't see it as a valuable and desirable ecosystem,” says a BYU professor.

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

Eureka in Juab County’s Tintic School District and Vernal in the Uintah County School District will receive a combined 12 buses in the first round of funding.

El Gran Lago Salado se está encogiendo a un paso alarmante, y está cercano a alcanzar un nuevo récord de nivel bajo, luego de una sequía extrema.

In 2014, Stericycle was fined $2.3 million for emissions violations.

The Great Salt Lake is set to reach a record low this summer as the drought persists. That will leave more of the lake’s bed exposed, relieving some toxic dust.

There are just eight fully electric school buses in Utah. Expanding the fleet could reduce air pollution for some of the most vulnerable areas — schools.