The Utah Air Problem

“nearly 60 percent of our pollution during inversions comes from tailpipes, and the technology

already exists to do something about it, there is absolutely no reason to wait.”

gov. herbert in state of the state speech 2014

this is a pretty amazing amount but according to the Utah department of environmental quality he's right but is trying to make it sound worse than it is by saying "

nearly 60 percent" instead of 55

present. and he's right that something should be done about it but the government can't do much. it is up to individuals to lower emissions themselves.

this page talks a lot about what we can do to help the problem and what the problem does to us. (i sadly couldn't get pictures in this to show you so go the the link and find them, it's easy) it shows that if we reduce idling, try not to drive much on days with high pollution, trip chain, and walk/bike/use public transportation we can reduce this number significantly.