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Clean Air Park City is a local chapter of the Utah Moms for Clean Air organization.  Check out the below facts on air quality which were prepared by Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE).


  • Medical research in the last ten years indicates air pollution is a more serious public health problem than previously thought.
  • Salt Lake, Provo and Logan consistently rank in the top ten U.S. cities for worst acute spikes in air pollution. Air pollution causes many serious illnesses, aggravates many others, and shortens the life span of Wasatch Front residents about 2 years.
  • Air pollution’s effects are analogous to tobacco’s effects, causing a systemic inflammatory response in the arterial system that affects all organs and accelerates atherosclerosis.
  • 4-8% of all deaths are attributable to air pollution (about 1000 premature deaths along the Wasatch Front annually).
  • Air pollution limits the growth of lung capacity in children, thus permanently reducing lung function as an adult.
  • Air pollution exacerbates existing asthma in adults and children and causes asthma / respiratory infections in those who are not otherwise predisposed.
  • Air pollution increases the incidence of SIDS, low birth weight syndrome, premature birth, and infant mortality.
  • Air pollution increases the incidence of the most common forms of childhood cancers, especially leukemia.
  • Air pollution increases genetic damage in newborns, probably leading to increased morbidities as an adult including heart disease, diabetes and cancers. These genetic aberrancies can be passed on to subsequent generations.
  • Mercury, a contaminant of coal combustion, is the chief suspect in the alarming epidemic of neurobehavioral disorders, including autism.
  • Coal power plants are the largest source of environmental mercury. No power plants in the country are currently using available mercury capture technology. Coal power plants are the largest source of nuclear radiation into the environment far exceeding properly functioning nuclear power plants.
  • Air pollution is not evenly distributed throughout the community. Hot spots persist along traffic corridors and near industrial sites. The interior of school buses may have four times as much diesel exhaust as the atmosphere outside.
For more information about Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment please visit www.uphe.org.

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