Air Quality/Inversions (Salt Lake City, Uintah, Hatch: medical, areas, permits)

[kletter1mann]

Originally Posted by skibarbie

Wow Kletterman, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? I feel sure that we all have asked a question that may be "obvious" to others. And speaking of wasting time, isn't that what City -Data is all about anyway?

I guess we have different views of it. There's little more annoying than posters letting other people to do their work for them. Many people on many boards feel the same. I don't have a whole lot of patience for posting questions without making at least some effort to do a search, either here or elsewhere. The post in question could have been answered a lot faster by just doing a google search.

[movingonagain777]

Smog isn't just an urban problem in Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune

[movingonagain777]

Moench: Big Utah polluters can cut emissions | The Salt Lake Tribune

[skibarbie]

The past few days have been so clear and lovely! Perfect temps, low humidity and,,,,when I hop up on the East side of 215 and can see the Delta Hanger at the airport, it is going to be a gorgeous day!

[dcisive]

Actually I'm over up on the hillside in Herriman and looking over towards the East yesterday morning there was a nice haze along the entire I-15 corridor from Point of the Mountain right up to the Bountiful area, so it wasn't all THAT clean. Better than most days but not perfect by any means. I'm not minding the cut back of output of the dust from Kennicott either.

[movingonagain777]

Mayor Ralph Becker Discusses Salt Lake Solutions and Combatting Air Pollution With a Coalition of Diverse Groups | EnviroNews

[SLCPUNK]

I read the ozone was also on the high side already unfortunately. I also read that Summit county is experiencing more high ozone days than SLC.

Originally Posted by kletter1mann

I guess we have different views of it. There's little more annoying than posters letting other people to do their work for them. Many people on many boards feel the same. I don't have a whole lot of patience for posting questions without making at least some effort to do a search, either here or elsewhere. The post in question could have been answered a lot faster by just doing a google search.

I agree. Don't thread jack. Use Google and search the forums for answers. You can find out the state income tax rate in 10 second via Google.

[kletter1mann]

The morning I was very interested to read this in the SLC Trib. As a general matter, polical movement from the extreme right towards the center would accompanied by less knee jerk adherence to such ideologies as global-warming-is-a-hoax, govt-regulations-are-inherently-bad, states-should-be free-to-do-whatever-they-want, EPA-is-a-commie-plot, etc, etc, etc.

Almost as interesting was one of the comments that non-LDS voter participation is extremely low and that higher non-LDS turnout would have a dramatic impact. [The implication was that LDS votes as a block based on direction from the pulpit. I have no idea if that's the case or not.]

If true, this may be good news (unless you think it means UT is now one step closer to gun confiscation). I had thought that UT politics was unalterably opposed to every approach necessary to seriously deal with the inversion problem. Yet it looks like it may actually be closer to a political tipping point than I would have imagined if people only prioritized it at the ballot box. What do you folks make of this?

[movingonagain777]

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50929/...tion_KEY=10620

[movingonagain777]

Moench: Big Utah polluters can cut emissions | The Salt Lake Tribune