Comments about ‘Clean air advocates say Governor Herbert's air quality initiative doesn't go far enough’

Environmentalists at times claim they are not against people making a living. Yet the examples that Dr. Brian Moench are companies planning to expand, obviously wrong in his opinion. Where does he expect any additional jobs to come from if companies can't expand?

Were it not for those pesky "environmentalists" your air that you breathe (unless you don't need it) is at least cleaner than it would be had it not been for "environmentalists" pushing Congress to pass the Clean Air Act. Same goes for that safe glass of water you took from your tap this morning. If you don't drink water, then I digress.

Clearly we can have a healthy economy and growth in jobs but corporate polluters need to be held accountable. They can expand, but do it without making our airshed worse. It will actually increase jobs. At the very worse, it might result in shareholders seeing a few pennies less on their next statement. It's just the cost of doing business responsibly. So please spare us the usual "environmentalists kill jobs" hooey because it doesn't contain an ounce of truth now and never has.

From information on the state's air quality web page, it appears that the high pollution in our valleys comes from 2 things - human activity (homes, cars, industry), temperature inversions caused by the mountains and often snow on the ground that makes those inversions worse. So, what these advocates really want is 1) less human activity; 2) get rid of those pesky mountains (which Kennecott is working on, but not on the pretty side of the valley); and 3) less snow - which, according to some, will be taken care of with global warming (which they also want stopped - which is confusing).

It seems to me that Utahns want to be responsible themselves for controlling their own destinies and avoid over-government regulation - but these advocates won't be happy until our air regulations are as burdensome as our tax code - and that won't go far in Utah. They say that Utah has to be told by the feds to clean our air, but Utah had a clean air act before the feds did.

Kudos to the governor and legislature - they recognize the importance of balancing clean air requirements with personal choice and economic growth, all of which are important.

'So, what these advocates really want is 1) less human activity...' - Yeah but | 8:00 a.m. Jan. 27, 2012

Really?

**'Herbert to call on drivers, homeowners to help clean up Utah's dirty air' - Deseret News - 01/26/11

'Salt Lake City Gov. Gary Herbert's plan to clean up Utah's dirty air will focus less on industry and more on motorists and homeowners.' - aticle

Remember this article?

Probably not. The Deseret News changed the title when it started to get negative feed back.

Then, it was removed from the website entirely.

Gov. Herbert, Utah's Governor, was asking Utah CITIZENS, not to pollute.

Not the coal mines, or the copper mines, or Energy solutions to take the depleted uranium out of Utah...

it's citizens.

Because our Utah lawmakers, apparently don't have enough leadership to put EMIISIONS CAPS, on the cars that pollute in the valley.

This, was yesterday!

19 hours ago.