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SALT LAKE CITY – June 24, 2019 – To continue progress toward improving our air quality, the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) opens its annual grants program. Grant funding is available to support projects that directly reduce pollutants and emissions, provide research on the impacts of air quality to Utah’s health and economy, or create resources for communities and municipalities to use in their local air quality improvement activities.

(May 28, 2019) – Utah Foundation has partnered with the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) to study the incentives and disincentives around alternative-fuel vehicles in the context of improving Utah’s air quality. Poor air quality is both a health issue and an economic challenge along the Wasatch Front. One of the biggest drivers of poor air quality is automobile traffic – a problem that could be alleviated by shifting to alternative fuel vehicles, among which electric vehicles now appear to be the most promising solution.

SALT LAKE CITY ​(May 22, 2019) — The Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) has become the exclusive beneficiary of the ​Lime Hero​ donation program in Utah. Lime Hero gives riders the option to round up the cost or add a small percentage to the cost of their ride that is donated to a local nonprofit to support local causes. In Utah, the local cause Lime supports is air quality.

SALT LAKE CITY—April 13, 2019—The latest Show UCAIR clean air program removed 1,000 environmentally-harmful gas cans from our state as Utahns exchanged old gas cans for environmentally-safe gas cans. The exchange was made possible by Boeing, Union Pacific, the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation and the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR).

Salt Lake City—May 20, 2019, Silicon Slopes and the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) unveils a strategic air quality partnership to move forward a solutions-based approach to improving air quality within Utah’s rapidly growing tech sector.

SALT LAKE CITY—February 6, 2019—At its fourth annual Show UCAIR (Utah Clean Air Partnership) Summit, Gov. Gary Herbert and UCAIR Executive Director Thom Carter addressed our progress toward improving Utah’s air quality.