EPA reclassification for pollution puts Salt Lake, Provo in 'serious' category

[Sunlei]

SALT LAKE CITY — The inability of the Provo and Salt Lake City regions to meet 2006 federal clean air standards for fine particulate pollution resulted in the Environmental Protection Agency reclassifying the metropolitan areas into a new category of "serious" non-attainment.

The Salt Lake City and Provo regions were unable to meet 24-hour standards for PM2.5 between 2013 and 2015 because at least one monitor in those areas showed pollution values that exceeded the federal threshold.

Although the Logan and Franklin, Idaho, region had been proposed for a serious designation, the EPA did not take any action on that area because of insufficient data.

Salt Lake City and Provo join Fairbanks, ALASKA, as the three areas that did not achieve compliance with the standard as of Dec. 31, 2015, and received the new classification.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865679022/EPA-reclassification-for-pollution-puts-Salt-Lake-Provo-in-serious-category.html

[geek tragedy]

1. Deep state! nt

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Isn't the Fat Fascist 45 view on this that....

you have to poison and kill several hundred thousand people to be seriously polluted........how did this mamby pamby, wussy categorization get past the new EPA head?

[Sunlei]

3. you mean republicans president?. Repubs will soon re-list those filthy air cities as "clean"

Corporations should pay for Americans health care out of their fabulous profits.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. This Great Salt Lake?

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A 1985 and 2010 comparison (25 years later):




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[Sunlei]

5. no the "city" that hopes for high winds to blow their cancer-air on to other States

[TheBlackAdder]

6. I didn't know the city was sitting high above the clouds base. Oh, never mind.

[Sunlei]

7. not sure what you mean? you think a states pollution of water, land,air stays IN the states border?

[TheBlackAdder]

9. I was trying to make a nuanced joke, about smog being a cloud layer. It seem that fell flat.

[Sunlei]

11. it's ok, message board text is always flat & emotionless

I knew Utah was always a mess with their dusty land mining, now with their filthy shale oil refining boom they'll help spread cancer around the world.

Surprised to see Alaska along with Utah as the top air polluters.

[oasis]

8. America's Polluter in Chief is just getting started. (eom)

[Sunlei]

10. Breath Deep Republicans.