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Why Salt Lake City, UT Has Some of the World’s Worst Air Quality and What We Can Do to Fix It

Salt Lake City Inversion

If you’ve ever been in Salt Lake City during the winter long enough, you know about its nasty air quality – its gross inversion layer that you often can’t see through but can smell, taste, and even feel.  IQAir, a Swedish research company, ranks Salt Lake City as the 94th metropolitan city with the worst air quality in the world. […]

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Haleigh Hafner | March 14, 2022
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Denver, CO Sees Worst Air Quality in 10 Years

According to a report by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Denver metro has had more alerts for fine particulate matter in 2020 than any full year in the last decade. This means that Denver’s air quality this year is the worst it’s been in over 10 years, likely due in part to this year’s horrendous wildfire […]

SnowBrains | October 12, 2020
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