Utah's Air Quality Issues: Problems and Solutions

301 Pages·2020·9.982 MB·English

by  Hal Crimmel

Utah’s Air Quality Issues

Utah’s Air Quality Issues
Problems and Solutions
Edited by
HAL CRIMMEL
The University of Utah Press
Salt Lake City
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-Publication Data
Names: Crimmel, Hal, 1966– editor.
Title: Utah’s air quality issues : problems and solutions / edited by Hal Crimmel.
Description: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2019] | Includes
bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: lccn 2019004892 (print) | lccn 2019006630 (ebook) |
isbn 9781607817093 () | isbn 9781607817086 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Air quality — Utah. | Air — P ollution — U tah. |
Air quality management — U tah.
Classification: lcc tD883.5.u8 (ebook) | lcc tD883.5.u8 u865 2019 (print) |
DDc 363.739/209792 — d c23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004892
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Introduction 1
Hal Crimmel
1. Breathing in Utah’s Parks and Protected Areas:
Air Quality and the Visitor Experience 17
Chris Zajchowski
2. What’s in the Inversion?: Particulate Matter Pollution
in Northern Utah 38
Kerry E. Kelly
3. Ozone, Dust, and Climate Change: Air Quality
in Rural Utah 66
Seth Arens
4. Air Pollution and Its Impacts on Human Health 98
Brian Moench
5. Air Pollution Control in Utah: The Legal Framework 134
James A. Holtkamp
6. The Economics of Air Quality in Utah 155
Therese C. Grijalva and Matthew Gnagey
7. Mobile Source Pollution and the Role of New Vehicle
Technologies in Cleaning the Air 174
Will Speigle
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8. Environmental Justice and Advocacy 194
Mark A. Stevenson and Denni Cawley
9. Designed for Clean Air: The Role of Urban Planning
and Transit in Solving Wasatch Front Air Quality Issues 224
Eric C. Ewert
10. Carbon Pollution and the Impacts of
Climate Disruption on Utah 245
Robert Davies
Appendix: Air Quality Resources for Readers 267
Contributors 273
Index 277
Figures
Frontispiece: Map of Utah.
1.1. Photo panel from the University of Utah’s
Mountain Meteorology Group representing four
air quality condition categories 27
1.2. The effect of air pollution on recreationists’ actions 29
2.1. Average composition of PM2.5 during winter inversions
(2010–2011) along the Wasatch Front 40
2.2. Winter- average source contributions from
DAQ emission i nventories in Salt Lake, Cache, and
Provo non- attainment areas. 44
2.3. Projected change in PM2.5 and PM2.5 precursors 2010–2019 45
2.4. Public perception of pollution sources vs. actual
pollution sources 47
2.5. PM2.5 pollution source attribution study 49
2.6. Contribution of brown carbon (wood burning)
to PM2.5 levels during winter 2016 51
2.7. Percentage of days that exceed the PM2.5 24–hour
NAAQS, and percentage of days that 24–hour PM2.5
concentrations are below 12.5 μg/m3 59
3.1. Map of Utah 72
3.2. Salt Lake City and Uintah Basin Ozone air quality
conditions exceedances 79
3.3. Salt Lake City and Park City ozone pollution 89
7.1. VOC emissions sources 175
7.2. NOx emissions sources 176
7.3. CO emissions sources 176
7.4. Utah sources of electricity 178
7.5. National sources of electricity 178
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