Great Salt Lake and dust storms
UPHE Board Member and ER Physician, Dr. Tom Nelson, spoke to NPR about growing concerns of dust coming from Great Salt Lake.
Dr. Tom Nelson was born and raised in Salt Lake City. And when he and his wife moved home after medical school training a few years ago, he was horrified at how bad the air pollution had gotten.
“If you live in the Wasatch valley, you’re now accustomed to intermittent dust storms, which are essentially dried up lakebed dust flowing into the Wasatch valley. And you can see it, you can smell it, you can breathe it,” he said on NPR. “Everyone in the Wasatch valley is concerned and agrees it’s a problem, but it feels like nothing’s getting done.”
Dr. Tom Nelson recently wrote the below concerns about air quality on behalf of UPHE: