Air Pollution

Utah's capital is one of several Mountain West cities with high ozone pollution, commonly known as smog. Higher temperatures, wildfires, and geography can all make pollution worse.

The Environmental Protection Agency was supposed to identify areas that don't meet updated pollution standards. A coalition of environmental groups is suing over the missed deadline.

Utah has one of the highest rates of suicide in the nation. It turns out heat and pollution may be playing a bigger role than previously assumed.

Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. But the last smog alert happened in 2003, and lead has virtually disappeared from the air.

Co-founder Ed Stafford speaks about a high school clean air contest with more than a thousand Utah and southern Idaho student participants.

In other news, Utah's air quality has improved in the last two decades, even with its population doubling. And, tracking vehicles without consent is illegal in Utah — but what about people?

Utah counties are struggling when it comes to clean air, according to a new report from the American Lung Association and advocates said Utahns will pay the price with their overall health.

Each fall, for the last ten years, a challenge has gone out to Utah and Southern Idaho’s high school students to create a poster that sends a strong message to the rest of us that the air we breathe is dangerously dirty and we need to do something about it.

Utah high school teens spread information about air pollution in the state through public service announcements.

In other news, a statue of Utah's first female senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall in Washington Wednesday.