Highland High School and I-80 are seen through a break in the clouds and smog during a red-air quality day in Salt Lake City Thursday.
T.J. Kirkpatrick, Deseret News
Thank you for printing valuable information about our air quality. When I moved to Salt Lake City in 1994, my perfect health record began to be tainted. I now suffer from bronchitis, allergies and asthma.
Until recently, I never understood that these afflictions were caused by poor air quality. When I visit friends in the Denver area my health problems disappear. I moved to Kaysville from Salt Lake City in part to get away from the air pollution.
But now, eight years later, I'm horrified at how bad the air is here as well. It's not just a few times a year any more. Now we're lucky to get a few clear days a month. I hope more people will become aware of this problem that is damaging our health, our children's health and our future. And I hope our elected officials take heed. It's time to take dirty air seriously.
Louise Speer
Kaysville
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Ironically, our air would be much worse if not for the feds. Utah politicos refuse to rise above minimum standards for air quality but the feds are holding their feet to the fire. If we do see better air here, it'll only be because the feds More..
I too moved here in the Fall of 2008. I can't believe the poor, AND WORSENING, air quality and the fact that no elected officials are addressing it. They seem to be willing to sacrifice the health of the tax payers and the health of More..
Good letter, Louise. Spot-on.
And to the Deseret News editors, re the photo accompanying Louise's letter, are you really trying to tell us that there was snow covering Highland High School, the east bench and the Oquirrh Mountains More..