Utah Division of Air Quality

Despite a split committee vote, Suzanne Harrison’s nomination could head to the full Senate.

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

Utah experiences inversions during the winter every year. This year’s inversion season will most likely be similar to last year.

Ozone forms by combining pollution with sunlight and warm temperatures.

On the morning of Jan. 8, people on the Salt Lake City's west side woke up to a sickly smell wafting through their homes. Residents of nearby neighborhoods were alarmed, and some began feeling health effects. It took 48 hours for local authorities to respond to their concerns.

Imagine this: The oil and gas industry in Utah supports overhauling air-quality permits for their wells – and so do environmental groups. It’s what’s…

A proposed air quality permit for a new medical waste incinerator in Tooele County is open for public comment. The move allows an old plant to be removed…

The Utah State University Climate Center’s inversion forecast is showing the season’s first big spike in probable valley inversions starting next week.…

One of Utah’s major sources of industrial air pollution, Tesoro Refinery, is on track to get a federal Clean Air Act permit after operating for more than…

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…

An environmental group is opposing the renewal of an air quality permit for Stericycle’s medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake City. The public…

The second week of the Utah Legislature is now in the books, and while it wasn’t as eventful as the first week, it definitely had its moments.Definition…