Utah’s population reached 3 million in 2017 and is expected to grow to 4 million in 2032. By 2065, Salt Lake and Utah counties are projected to house 3.3 million, a huge concentration in the center of the Wasatch Front airshed (Kem Gardner Institute Research Brief, July 2017).
With all good intentions and pages of recommendations by government elected officials and agency directors, and such civic minded organizations like Envision Utah, eight Utah counties (Utah, Salt Lake, Davis, Tooele, Weber, Box Elder, Uinta and Cache) have at one time or another failed recently to meet healthy air quality standards for a variety of pollutants (mainly ozone, 2.