Utah's governor sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today asking it to include a plant at the center of a recent air pollution study in a regional nonattainment area.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wants the Environmental Protection Agency to amend its Northern Wasatch Front ozone nonattainment area following a federal study that pinpointed a magnesium plant as a major undetected driver in regional pollution.
Cox wrote that the Utah Division of Air Quality determined that the US Magnesium plant in Tooele County is a "major" industrial point source of volatile organic compounds that "contribute to the degradation of the airshed but are located outside of the existing boundary." This map shows the current Northern Wasatch Front ozone nonattainment area, left, next to the proposed map, right. The change would put the US Magnesium plant in Tooele County in the nonattainment area.
A new federal study offers a stronger look at the pollution sources during winter inversions, including a previously unreported chemical.
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