If national air pollution regulations were tightened, 72 fewer people in the Salt Lake City area would die every year, according to a recent study of the health impacts of bad air.
Salt Lake City is ranked 23rd among U.S. cities for highest number of excess health impacts from outdoor air pollution, according to a report presented this week at the American Thoracic Society’s annual international conference and published in the group’s medical journal, Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
The “Health of the Air” report takes the society’s recommended levels for two major air pollutants — ozone and PM 2.