Category: Public Interest

  • Keeping Utah Clean and Healthy: Division of Environmental Response and Remediation

    Mission The Division of Environmental Response and Remediation is charged with protecting public health and Utah’s environment through cleanup of chemically contaminated sites, and by ensuring that underground storage tanks are used properly and by providing chemical usage and emission data to the public and local response agencies. The Superfund Branch The Branch focuses on…

  • EPA Envirofact Widgets

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed and provided the following widgets as a service to our citizens.

  • Utah’s Drinking Water

    Utah’s drinking water comes from either surface water (lakes, reservoirs, rivers) or ground water (wells or springs), altogether 1,850 sources.

  • Consumer Products and PM2.5

    While it might not seem like hair spray, carpet cleaner, or air fresheners contribute to Utah’s PM2.5 problem, they do.

  • Air Quality Management in Utah

    The Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Division of Air Quality currently operates 11 carbon monoxide monitors, 16 fine particulate monitoring sites, and 19 meteorological stations along the Wasatch Front.

  • DEQ Fact Sheets

    Fact sheets and information handouts about DEQ’s activities and issues.

  • Frequently Asked Questions: Boil Water Order

    This boil water order information is provided as a service to help you protect your family. Why must I boil my water? A boil order has been issued to your water system because either recent testing has shown the presence of organisms that could cause illness (e.g. fecal or E. coli bacteria), or technical/physical problems…

  • Environmental Public Interest

    Environmental public interest topics provided by Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Still have questions? Contact us. Air Drinking Water Environmental Response and Remediation General Radiation Control Waste Management Water

  • Smog Rating Information

    The Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is encouraging consumers to consider cleaner cars when they purchase their next vehicle. Along the Wasatch Front, vehicles contribute over half of the emissions that form PM2.5.

  • Inversion Toolkit

    Air Quality Conditions Wood Burning Health Emissions PM2.5 State Implementation Plan

  • Some Common Myths: Be Idle Free

    Many people are unaware that reducing the time a vehicle spends idling can make a big difference in both air quality and fuel costs.

  • Health Effects: Be Idle Free

    Idling can be bad for your health. While children, the elderly, and people with respiratory ailments are most vulnerable to the pollutants from vehicle exhaust, these emissions affect everybody.

  • Be Idle Free

    Idling your vehicle gets you nowhere. It increases our dependence on petroleum, reduces the fuel economy of your vehicle, costs you money, emits pollutants, and wastes precious natural resources.

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