Utah Division of Air Quality

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…

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…

A new company has a proposal to turn Sandy city's household trash into electric energy. If approved, it would be the first facility of its kind in Utah.…

National and local wood burning advocates are pushing back on the Utah Division of Air Quality’s proposed ban on any solid fuel burning between November…

In his State of the State address to the legislature last January, Governor Gary Herbert suggested a season-long ban on wood burning as a way to improve…