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Commentary: Faith leaders could get something done about air quality

OK, so I am upset about how all of the climate change initiatives have been ignored or pulled back by this administration. Maybe I should just worry about my own backyard — Utah.

I have lived in Utah since 1973. We moved here to ski and go to college. Cache Valley was idyllic, but even back in the 1980s, we had some inversions. When I was seven months into my pregnancy, my husband insisted we go up to Beaver Mountain to get out of the inversion and to boost my spirits. What a tonic it was.

Of course, all these years later and with all of the additional people and automobiles, inversions are worse and more frequent.