Another week, another front-page headline warning about the dangers of local air pollution, this time a doctors’ report that poor air quality in and around Salt Lake City leads to over 150,000 lost days of work and school per year and almost 100 deaths.
We all care about the air we breathe but, as individuals with busy lives, what can we do? One thing we can — and certainly should — do is support the groups that are lobbying the Utah Legislature for action.
But we can do more, and that’s why we’ve started a grassroots effort to put a clean-air-and-climate measure on the 2020 ballot.