Category: Air Quality

  • SmokeReadyUtah: Building smoke-ready communities through air quality monitoring, health messaging and targeted interventions

    SmokeReadyUtah provides support for underserved urban and rural communities to handle wildfire smoke. This program provides indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring along with enhanced health messaging and targeted interventions, providing communities and schools with the information they need to minimize their exposure to wildfire smoke. The project will be completed in March 2027 and…

  • Certified Asbestos Companies

    Updated 9/3/2024 Disclaimer The Utah Department of Environmental Quality-Division of Air Quality (UDEQ-DAQ) is providing this list as a courtesy and makes no claims to the quality of work performed by the companies listed herein. UDEQ-DAQ requires that Utah certified asbestos companies use Utah certified individuals in the appropriate asbestos discipline. If you have any…

  • Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS)

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is leading a large-scale campaign that will increase our understanding of ozone chemistry and emissions sources. During the Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS), NOAA will be deploying two mobile labs and an aircraft that contains an exhaustive suite of instrumentation to measure the meteorology and ozone precursors that…

  • Marginal Conventional Well Closure Grant

    A subset of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program under the Inflation Reduction Act The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Division of Air Quality (DAQ) $2.7 million to reduce methane emissions from marginal (low-producing) oil and gas wells in the Uinta Basin. Grant funds…

  • June 5, 2024, Agenda: Air Quality Board Meeting

    Meeting Agenda Lunch provided for Board members followed by a site visit to a refinery tank farm andpotentially one other source site visit.

  • Northern Wasatch Front Serious Ozone SIP Technical Support Documentation

    UDAQ is currently developing the Northern Wasatch Front (NWF) Serious State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the 2015 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The following tabs contain the technical support documentation (TSD) pertaining to the development of the SIP and associated administrative rules. These are draft documents and are subject to change. Contact Ryan…

  • VOC Community Monitoring: Neighborhood Air

    This project aims to monitor volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in underserved communities in Utah’s Wasatch Front. By conducting regular surveys using a mobile laboratory, the Division of Air Quality (DAQ) can gather data at the neighborhood level. Utah communities including North Salt Lake, Bountiful, Woods Cross, Poplar Grove, and several…

  • Utah Point Source Halogen Emissions

    HB 220 – Emissions Reduction Amendments, was passed during the 2023 Utah Legislature General Session. The legislation was subsequently signed into law by Governor Cox. The legislation’s applicability is limited to Box Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Weber, Tooele and Utah counties and directs the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) to: The legislation also directs…

  • WestSide AirSense: Empowering communities through enhanced PM monitoring

    We want to learn more about the air pollution in underserved neighborhoods on the west side of Salt Lake Valley. To do this, we’re using affordable air quality sensors in those areas to measure levels of PM2.5 and PM10 particles. We are developing air quality maps and alerts to provide instant, local air quality information.…

  • 2020:Statewide Emissions Inventories

    The annual emissions inventory is one means used by the state to assess the level of pollutants released into the air from various sources. Inventory Data The data posted on this site will include only the latest version of the 2020 Emissions Inventory. This webpage should not be used as a reference for past versions…

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