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Utah joined 37 states and the District of Columbia in suffering through a high-smog July this year, says an item in the Clean Air Watch blog Monday.
The nation's air-quality gauges recorded 1,852 days when readings topped a new Environmental Protection Agency standard of 75 parts ozone to a billion parts air.
Utah's 12 monitors reported ozone exceeded the federal standard nine days, compared with six last year, according to the state's Division of Air Quality. If the EPA standards had not gotten tougher, Utah would have exceeded the former, health-based standard three times. The old standard was 80 parts per billion.
-Judy Fahys
