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Picnic at Wheeler Farm & Call to join Utah’s Clear the Air Challenge!

May 29th, 2009

Rally Call to join Utah’s Clear the Air Challenge!

• WHAT: Utah Moms quarterly meeting and social to promote the Clear the Air Challenge issued by Gov. Jon Huntsman, Mayor Ralph Becker and Mayor Peter Corroon.

• WHEN: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., June 13, 2009

• WHERE: Wheeler Historic Farm, 6351 S. 900 E., Salt Lake City (Don’t forget to carpool, walk, ride your bike or hop on your pogo stick!)

• WHY: Salt Lake Valley air is dirty and you can make a difference.

Food, Fun: Our mission is to clean Utah’s dirty air, but that doesn’t mean we won’t get dirty at Wheeler Farm. We have lots of outdoor INDOOR games planned, including an egg relay and Hula Hooping. We’ll have some yummy grub, but feel free to potluck or picnic.

Challenge: Utah Moms for Clean Air is promoting this summer’s Clear the Air Challenge, which is a six week competition from June 1 to July 10 that encourages everyone traveling along the Wasatch Front to reduce vehicle emissions by DRIVING LESS and DRIVING SMARTER.

Learn more and join the Utah Moms for Clean Air team at: www.cleartheairchallenge.orgfighting cocks
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Want Clean Air? Clear the Air!

May 12th, 2009

Salt Lake Solutions Air Quality Partners, a community-based partnership including Utah Moms for Clean Air, presents


CLEAR THE AIR CHALLENGE | DRIVE DOWN YOUR MILES

TAKE THE CHALLENGE AND BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION TO CLEAR THE AIR
If you haven’t already noticed, air pollution in Utah is becoming an unwelcome reality. Poor air quality means increased illness, and other health complications along with environmental problems and diminished quality of life in our communities. The good news is that this summer you can compete in the Clear the Air Challenge. Enter as a individual and build a team - there are tons of great prizes, but with clearer air, we’re all winners.
The Clear the Air Challenge, issued by Governor Huntsman, Mayor Becker and Mayor Corroon, is all about improving air quality, reducing traffic congestion and conserving energy in Utah by eliminating unnecessary vehicle trips. By simply eliminating a few vehicle trips throughout your week, you can make a big difference in your community while competing for weekly prizes, grand prizes and statewide recognition.
Register at ClearTheAirChallenge.org to take the challenge and start making a difference.

CHALLENGE GOALS
The challenge is open to all travelers excited about smarter alternatives to driving alone. Whether you’re completely new to TravelWise strategies, or a seasoned veteran, we encourage you to participate.
The goal of the Challenge is to:
– Eliminate 300,000 vehicle trip
– Save 1 million miles
– Reduce 1.8 million lbs. of emissions
Register here.

Many of us already avoid or minimize driving, and many more of us just feel guilty about driving. Either way or anywhere in between, the Challenge website can help each of us find the means and motivation to dig deeper and drive less. With the ozone season almost on us, it’s time for widespread action. Please join the Utah Moms for Clean Air team!

Utahns Want More Rail

February 20th, 2009

As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune today, February 20, 2009, Utahns overwhelmingly support commuting by rail.

Link to article with graphs here.

Poll finds Utahns want more commuter trains
Most favor extending TRAX and Frontrunner, but balk at bonding for freeways.
By Brandon Loomis

If laying the first tracks didn’t settle the debate a decade ago, riding the trains since then would seem to have done it: Utahns like light rail.

A survey by the University of Utah’s Center for Public Policy & Administration finds overwhelming public support for continued investment in rail transit projects. Among 1,002 residents polled statewide, 79 percent said continued funding for rail projects either is very important or somewhat important.

Among the 546 interviewed within the Utah Transit Authority’s service area, that support spurted to 81 percent, said Jennifer Robinson, associate director for the U.’s center.

It’s no surprise to Wasatch Front Regional Council Director Chuck Chappell, who said nine-plus years of riding the rails have convinced once-skeptical Utahns that they need transportation choices.

“There’s huge support for that on the part of the council and now, apparently, the public,” he said. “I think it’s [because of] experience with congestion on the highways and the need for alternatives in the peak periods.”

Robinson said it also may be because skyrocketing gasoline prices last summer boosted the number of riders, exposing more people to TRAX and FrontRunner rail service. UTA recorded a 12 percent jump in passengers during 2008, though January’s numbers — a few months after gas prices plunged — were back near last year’s numbers, up just 2.4 percent. Light rail continued to gain popularity, though, up 16 percent from a year ago while bus ridership fell.
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Traffic-Related Air Pollution Linked to Repeated Hospital Encounters for Asthma

February 16th, 2009

Newswise - Air pollution caused by traffic near the home affects asthma severity in children, resulting in repeated hospital encounters according to a study published this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).

Ralph J. Delfino, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues, studied records for 2,768 children from two hospitals in northern Orange County, Calif. Beginning with the first hospital encounter, investigators analyzed children’s estimated exposures at their home addresses to the traffic-related air pollutants nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO). They estimated the risk of recurrent hospital encounters from exposure to air pollution using recurrent proportional hazards analysis, adjusting for sex, age, health insurance, census-derived poverty, race/ethnicity, residence distance to hospital, and season.

Previous studies have demonstrated that high home or school traffic density is associated with prevalence of diagnosed asthma, but the impact of exposure to traffic on repeated episodes of asthma requiring hospital care is unclear, they report.

“Traffic-related NOx and CO were associated with repeated hospital encounters for asthma in children, suggesting that local traffic-generated air pollution near the home affects asthma symptom severity,” the researchers write.

Approximately half of the repeated encounters in this study population occurred between ages 1 and 3 years. Based on their significant findings in infants with a primary diagnosis of asthma at their first hospital encounter, the authors suggest that early-life exposures to traffic pollutants may affect asthma severity and development.

Investigators did not find that children of lower socioeconomic status were at increased risk from air pollution exposures. They found evidence that this unexpected result was probably due to follow-up data that was less accurate in this group.

“Prospective environmental data are sparse for high-risk populations who present to the hospital with asthma exacerbations. Additional work with improved assessments of air pollutant exposures and asthma outcomes in such high-risk populations is likely to be fruitful given the present results,” conclude Dr. Delfino and his colleagues.

The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) is a professional medical organization headquartered in Arlington Heights, Ill., that promotes excellence in the practice of the subspecialty of allergy and immunology. The College, comprising more than 5,000 allergists-immunologists and related health care professionals, fosters a culture of collaboration and congeniality in which its members work together and with others toward the common goals of patient care, education, advocacy and research.

Citation: Delfino RJ, et al. Repeated hospital encounters for asthma in children and exposure to traffic-related air pollution near the home. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2009;102:138-144.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/549200/?sc=rsmn

Mountain View Corridor — The Tribune’s Take on Our Efforts

September 29th, 2008

Mountain View: UDOT plan friendly to environment

Tribune Editorial
Article Last Updated: 09/29/2008 07:02:19 AM MDT

Clean-air advocates and pollution-wary parents concerned about the health impact of the Mountain View freeway can breathe easier. The Utah Department of Transportation has unveiled the final environmental study for the west-side highway connecting Lehi to Salt Lake City, and the plan should help allay their concerns.

The proximity of the proposed highway to public schools - it will run north-south at 5800 West - had Utah Moms for Clean Air and other health advocacy groups fuming. Particulate matter and other pollutants in automotive exhaust is particularly harsh on young lungs.

But UDOT - gasp! - took their concerns to heart.

The state will spend $3.1 million for air-filtering systems for schools located along the route, and another $1 million for air-monitoring systems outside the schools. That means kids may want to hold their breath when they’re walking up the sidewalk, but they can be assured of fresh air once inside. State officials also agreed to purchase land for a school in West Valley City in the event Granite School District officials decide to relocate Hillside Elementary, the closest school to what will eventually be an eight-lane freeway.

That’s right. Eventually. While long-term plans still call for a superhighway, and the state will acquire enough land now to allow for the eventual expansion, a scaled-back design will make Mountain View a four-lane limited access road at birth.

The highway will be connected to major east-west thoroughfares with intersections, not exits, at 1.5-mile intervals.

While traffic safety will no doubt suffer under the revised plan, the initial cost savings and pollution reduction from the two-step approach should be significant. And in another development lauded by environmental activists, there’s a mass transit component to the project.

There are plans for bus rapid transit lanes, separated from traffic by curbs, to link up with west-side TRAX light-rail lines currently under development. The mass transit plan should help alleviate the need for extra Mountain View lanes for the short-term, while further reducing pollution from automobile emissions.

Clean-air proponents can give themselves a pat on the back for their strident advocacy, and give UDOT a hand for listening and responding to their concerns. crossed legs girls
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Salt Lake thinks Streetcars are great — we agree!!

September 26th, 2008

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

SLC leaders say streetcars desired after transit tour

Mayor Becker says a network here needs to be a priority after seeing how much Northwest cities benefit

By Derek P. Jensen

Giddy about the efficiency of Portland’s downtown streetcar system - and the economic spoils it spurs - Salt Lake City leaders are determined to bring new tracks and trolleys to Utah’s capital.
    Fresh from a Northwest transit tour of Portland, Seattle and Vancouver with 28 city and business officials, Mayor Ralph Becker says a new streetcar network, beginning in downtown, is a priority for his freshman administration.
    “Lay the tracks and development happens,” Becker told reporters Thursday morning at City Hall. “That’s what we saw place after place.”
    The vision, shared by the Redevelopment Agency, Salt Lake Chamber and the City Council, is to see streetcars - they stop on each block and charge a fare in some areas - connect to both light- and heavy-rail hubs. Eventually, they could spread into neighborhoods - the planned Sugar House trolley would serve as a model - rendering vehicles unnecessary for capital visitors and residents alike.
    “Within a five-year horizon, it’s doable,” said Bob Farrington, the city’s new economic development director.
    Call it back to the future for Utah’s capital, which once boasted a bustling web of street trolleys but has since seen its 150 miles of track buried by concrete. Becker says resurrecting those lines is not practical, but insists laying new streetcar tracks can be done in 18 months - and it’s cheaper than TRAX.”

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Want a Better (Cleaner!) Way to Power Your Car? It’s a Breeze.

August 31st, 2008

By Lester R. Brown
Washington Post
Sunday, August 31, 2008;

Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country’s wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion we may soon be paying annually for imported oil. But part two of Pickens’s plan — to move natural gas out of electricity production and use it to fuel cars instead — just doesn’t make sense.

Why not use the wind-generated electricity to power cars directly? Natural gas is still a fossil fuel that emits climate-changing gases when burned. Let’s cut the natural-gas middleman.

Plug-in cars are here, nearly ready to market. We just need to put wind in the driver’s seat. Several major auto manufacturers, including GM, Ford, Toyota and Nissan, are producing plug-in hybrids. Both Toyota and GM are committed to marketing plug-in hybrids in 2010. Toyota might even try to deliver a plug-in version of its Prius gas-electric hybrid, the bestseller whose U.S. sales match those of all other hybrids combined, next year.

Some Prius owners aren’t even waiting for Toyota. They’ve jumped the gun, converting their cars to plug-ins simply by adding a second storage battery, which increases the distance you can drive between recharges, and an extension cord that you can plug into any wall socket to recharge the batteries from the electrical grid. This lets them push the car’s already exceptional gas mileage in routine daily driving of 46 miles per gallon to more than 100 miles per gallon.

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Cleaner Buses for Utah Children

August 1st, 2008

State awaits cash for devices that would help the school vehicles release fewer pollutants

By Lisa Schencker
The Salt Lake Tribune

(Dr. Michelle Hofmann, Utah Moms for Clean Air co-founder, along with representaive Christine Johnson, were instrumental in getting legislation passed that makes retrofitting Utah’s school buses possible. Along with the approriations to retrofit our school buses, they were also able to get mandatory idle education included in the bill which will help bus drivers understand the negative health consequences to themselves and the children of idling unneccessarily.)

Nearly half of Utah’s school buses might soon spout fewer of the pollutants that can harm children and adults. The state’s Division of Air Quality expects to receive $2.3 million in federal, state and local money to help about 1,150 school buses clean up their acts, said Mat Carlile, an environmental planning consultant with the division. The money would go toward installing devices on diesel-power school buses that would keep them from releasing as many pollutants into the air and the insides of buses. “Not only will the air children breathe on the bus be cleaner, it will be cleaner for the rest of us as well,” said Stacee Adams, an environmental planning consultant with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Buses with the devices would release 40 percent less particulate matter, which is soot and dust that can damage the lungs, Carlile said. They’d release 60 percent less carbon monoxide and 75 percent less volatile organic compounds, which react with nitrogen and heat to form the pollutant ozone in the summer.
For Utah, that will likely mean 1,360 fewer pounds of particulate matter, 5.77 fewer tons of volatile organic compounds and 18.66 fewer tons of carbon monoxide in the air each year, Carlile said. Murrell Martin, pupil transportation specialist at the Utah State Office of Education, said that’s good news for children, whose lungs are not as fully developed as adults. “Too much exposure can cause damage,” Martin said.

He said four of Utah’s 40 districts - Park City, Davis, Cache and Logan - are already working on installing the devices on their buses with different money. About another 20 districts, he said, have expressed a strong interest in getting the devices. The grants would be used to install devices only on buses built between 1993 and 2006. Buses built since then are already low-emission, Martin said. Marty Latimer, a staff assistant for the Jordan School District’s transportation department, said Jordan will likely pursue getting the devices. Already, he said, 27 of Jordan’s 300 buses are new. Forty-four of the district’s buses use compressed natural gas, meaning they already run clean, he said.
Carlile said the Division of Air Quality, which is part of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, will get about $400,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), $100,000 appropriated by the Legislature, and will contribute $96,000 itself.

Another $1.5 million will likely come from the Wasatch Front Regional Council and Mountainland Association of Governments, pending final approval by both those bodies, Carlile said. The rest of the money would come from a non-competitive EPA grant, Carlile said. He said the division expects to receive that grant money but will likely know for sure in August. Adams said installation of the devices likely will start next year. The Division of Air Quality, the state education office, the Salt Lake County Mayor’s office, the EPA, Utah Clean Cities, the Utah Department of Transportation, the Wasatch Front Regional Council, Mountainland Association of Governments, Utah Moms for Clean Air, the Wasatch Clean Air Coalition and Utah County all worked together on the issue.

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