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Utah Gets Bad Grades For Air Quality
Jenny Brundin (2010-04-28)
A wintertime inversion or "cold-air pool" traps air pollution over the Salt Lake Valley Erik Crosman, University of Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (kuer) - The American Lung Association released its annual national air quality "report card" yesterday. It looks at two forms of pollution - ozone and particle pollution. In terms of dangerous spikes in particle pollution, the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield area is the seventh most polluted in the country. Utah County ranks 15th most polluted and Cache comes in at 20th. KUER's Jenny Brundin reports.

American Lung Association's State of the Air Report 2010

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