A new bill introduced ahead of the 2022 legislative session would allow air pollution to be listed as a factor in someone’s death on an official death certificate.
Poor air quality obscures the Oquirrh Mountains and downtown Salt Lake City, as seen from the University of Utah on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021., sponsored by Rep. Stephen Handy, R-Layton, allows a physician to say that air pollution was a contributor to someone’s death when it’s put on file with Utah’s Department of Health.
In an interview with FOX 13, Rep. Handy said so far he has only heard anecdotal evidence that Utah’s air quality issues have factored into deaths and he wants data. The bill, he said, is part of a longer strategy to get data that can inform air quality policy. “I’m hoping with additional data points it will, in fact, inform policy makers in the future. And I don’t know what we’re talking, five years, 10 years out there, but it will be very interesting to put this under a microscope to see, and then address policies as needed to protect people’s health,” he said.
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