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In the discussion thread: Toxic fog UT: Pregnant women and children urged to stay indoors as pollution goes 'off the charts' [View all]

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Tue Jan 29, 2013, 12:01 PM

former9thward (6,365 posts)

53. How has Utah weakened federal regulations?

That is your statement not mine. And it is false.

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66 replies	Author	Time	Post
Toxic fog UT: Pregnant women and children urged to stay indoors as pollution goes 'off the charts' [View all]	Coyotl	Jan 2013	OP
kick & rec	psychmommy	Jan 2013	#1
Very sad to watch this.	logosoco	Jan 2013	#2
Why doesn't Obama want people to go outside? WHAT IS HE HIDING!?!?!?!	Ian David	Jan 2013	#3
I wonder how "PRO LIFE" conservatives would react to this story.	alp227	Jan 2013	#7
They'll call it Gawd's will or say it's just a normal cycle.	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#14
How much is a result of burning coal for power production in Texas?	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#4
Smog from the deep South doesn't reach Utah to pollute it. It's more likely from the coal-fired	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#15
Don't be so sure. Yes the local effect is greatest but mercury in particular can	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#16
The prevailing winds don't go from TX to UT. Sorry. Perhaps up in the stratosphere, but	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#18
Prevailing winds in Utah are from South and Southeast in winter.	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#20
Have you ever lived in or near Salt Lake?? Because I have. You don't know what you are	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#25
Prevailing wind data.	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#32
No, just stop. Salt Lake Valley's cars, industry, fireplaces, and its inversions are enough	CreekDog	Jan 2013	#29
Main source of smog is local, sure.	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#33
there is no wind in this weather pattern, are you not paying attention?	CreekDog	Jan 2013	#34
Asked and answered. See law of conservation of matter.	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#35
Scientists have already figured out the science of these air pollution episodes	CreekDog	Jan 2013	#37
In case you didn't know it...	2naSalit	Jan 2013	#59
Exactly, no wind and the pollution quantity in the stagnant air just keeps climbing and climbing	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#36
Why are you so invested in blaming Texas? nt	Dreamer Tatum	Jan 2013	#46
Are U.S news sources reporting this?...I found two national sources...just one...	Stuart G	Jan 2013	#5
Here is a link and a qote from Salt Lake City..	Stuart G	Jan 2013	#6
Just hold your breath?	geomon666	Jan 2013	#12
the poor things will chock to death on bad air	ROBROX	Jan 2013	#21
NY Times: On Our Radar: Salt Lake Smog	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#8
This is in the "enviornmental section" not front page..	Stuart G	Jan 2013	#9
Totally buried given the danger. The West weather pattern is starting to break up again.	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#26
Maybe God is angry at the Mormons?	dixiegrrrrl	Jan 2013	#10
I think the "Conservative Media" is trying to cover this up..could that be???nt	Stuart G	Jan 2013	#11
There are similar inversions in the Valley of the Sun	TM99	Jan 2013	#13
Had no idea people living in Phoenix were called Phoenicians. Makes sense though.	yellowcanine	Jan 2013	#22
Yup	TM99	Jan 2013	#40
But Phoenix is not the bottom of a basin, very different.	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#27
I said similar, but not the same exactly.	TM99	Jan 2013	#39
I lived out by Superstition Mountain for a decade	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#42
Then you have seen it up close & personal	TM99	Jan 2013	#44
Thank God they don't have all those pesky guvn'ment environmental reg-yoo-lay-shuns	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#17
I guess all the prosperity goes to the last one left alive.	Squinch	Jan 2013	#24
The good people of UT have chosen by large margins of voters to get rid off	stultusporcos	Jan 2013	#41
What laws have voters gotten "rid off"?	former9thward	Jan 2013	#47
Voting Republican in about every election for God knows how many years	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#48
The EPA is a federal agency.	former9thward	Jan 2013	#49
So in other words, Utah has done it's part to weaken clean air standards at the federal level	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#50
How has Utah weakened federal regulations?	former9thward	Jan 2013	#53
As I have now said several times, vote Republican, and this is what you get	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#54
2003? This is 2013.	former9thward	Jan 2013	#55
If you want to deny that there's a pervasive attitude in Utah against what they call	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#56
You have totally ignored the main question.	former9thward	Jan 2013	#57
Look bright guy, I've answered your question several times already	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#58
The UT sitution was caused by a tempeature inversion.	former9thward	Jan 2013	#60
No, our budget is balanced because we voted for tax increases	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#61
So CA is going to reject that $79 billion in federal help?	former9thward	Jan 2013	#62
LOL. Talk about desperate clinging on your part	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#63
I don't live in Utah.	former9thward	Jan 2013	#64
And you might want to educate yourself about how some Utah counties	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#65
ANY threads from US MEDIA? US MEdia? us media?	benld74	Jan 2013	#19
Did you see The Daily Show last night.	bamacrat	Jan 2013	#23
Does Anyone Remember This Incident?	General Zod	Jan 2013	#28
Saw footage about this before. Astounding story.	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#30
Yes!	My Good Babushka	Jan 2013	#51
It's like Beijing, but with Mormons!	hatrack	Jan 2013	#31
Worst Smog event. ever...London December 1952...killed at least 4000, sickened 100,000	Stuart G	Jan 2013	#38
This current windless spell may be related to the breakdown in polar circulation pattern recently	Coyotl	Jan 2013	#43
Could be...who knows for sure?? If a few die cause of pollution,	Stuart G	Jan 2013	#45
Fart in a gold fish bowl and wear it like a hat, and you breathe your own shit	Agnosticsherbet	Jan 2013	#52
We reap what we sew	primavera	Jan 2013	#66

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