Is Utah behind the curve when it comes to dust mitigation from the drying Great Salt Lake?

More monitors around the lake’s edges would be “the prudent thing to do,” according to one expert.

(Spenser Heaps | Deseret News) Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, and Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, check out an air quality monitor while taking journalists on a tour of the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Is Utah behind the curve when it comes to dust mitigation from the drying Great Salt Lake?

More monitors around the lake’s edges would be “the prudent thing to do,” according to one expert.

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