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Langley: Cars Make Cities Worse

By Jeffrey Langley Jr., Opinion Writer March 29, 2023

  A long-standing symptom of America's gung-ho approach to individual freedom is our love of the automobile. Since the introduction of the Model T Ford over one hundred years ago, cars have dominated...

Exhaust pipe of a running car at Shoreline Ridge on University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.

U Professors Still Point to Emissions as Lead Cause for Inversion

By TJ Ross, News Writer March 4, 2023

  Since Jonathan Deesing wrote a story for The Daily Utah Chronicle in 2009 where University of Utah Urban Planning Professor Keith Bartholomew said car emissions are one of the leading causes...

Inversion in Salt Lake City, UT on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. (Photo by Curtis Lin/ Daily Utah Chronicle)

Chung: Utahns, Say “No” to the Rollback of Clean Car Standards

By Stacy Chung June 22, 2020

Despite the major consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, there is one possibly optimistic result — significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions. But don’t get your hopes up. Even this slightest...

Smog over the Salt Lake Valley. Courtesy Flickr.

Barron: Utahns Must Take Initiative Against Smog Instead of Sitting In It

By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer May 10, 2019

Air pollution is responsible for 6.4 million annual deaths worldwide, a statistic that does not exclude Utahns. A state-sponsored report, Air Pollution and Public Health in Utah, links the Wasatch Front’s...

Marathon Petroleum Refinery at night 
(Photo by: Kiffer Creveling | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Braden: A License to Pollute

By Paul Braden January 16, 2019

  Another winter brings with it the usual matters of discontent in Salt Lake City: dangerous road conditions and poor air quality. Compact cars can frequently be seen careening sideways through...

(Graphic by Mark Klekas)

The U Stumbles on Path to Sustainability

By Taylor Almond April 16, 2015

The U has committed itself to be more sustainable, but so far, it’s not meeting its own green goals. The U signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), an...

(Photo by Kiffer Creveling)

U’s Relation to Fossil Fuels Complicated

By Taylor Almond February 2, 2015

  The U’s climate plan takes its own carbon footprint into consideration, but not its partners’. Jeff Wrigley, energy manager for the U’s Facilities Management, said the U used 1.8 mmBtus...

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