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A new Utah law was hailed as a win for air quality. But what impact will it have?
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A new Utah law was hailed as a win for air quality. But what impact will it have?

The following story is Part 2 of two stories reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune and support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Read Part 1 here. As Utah continued its trend of violating federal air pollution limits, state air quality officials...

At US Magnesium, safety equipment went offline and Utahns reported an acrid fog. Here’s how regulators reacted
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At US Magnesium, safety equipment went offline and Utahns reported an acrid fog. Here’s how regulators reacted

The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune and support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. The plumes of mist that drifted toward the Utah Test and Training Range in November 2021 were thick enough that they had begun...

Air quality watchdogs struggle to track diesel emissions cheaters, despite a simple solution
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Air quality watchdogs struggle to track diesel emissions cheaters, despite a simple solution

By Emma Penrod The following story was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Daily Herald and The Standard Examiner. When a federal court judge ordered reality television stars from the Diesel Brothers to pay an $850,000 fine for hundreds of violations of the Clean Air Act, Utah environmentalists...