A new study names air quality as the second-highest priority for Utah voters. More than two-thirds of voters who were polled by the non-partisan Utah Foundation say they are pretty concerned about the issue.
The last time the Utah Foundation developed its Utah Priorities list was four years ago, and the environment ranked 7th. But this year the importance of clean air shot up — maybe because the polling was being done after an especially bad episode of wintertime pollution. Shawn Teigan, the Utah Foundation’s research director, says the concern about bad air isn’t limited to the places where it’s worst.
“Even people off the Wasatch Front,” says Teigen. On “the Wasatch Front, even more people were concerned about it, but even off the Wasatch Front we found that there was concern.”
