Useful Links
Environmental Regulations and Technologies for Oil and Gas
- A collection of best management practices for the oil and gas industry in the Intermountain West
- Emissions control techniques for oil and gas (EPA)
- State-by-state air quality laws pertaining to oil and gas development
- State-by-state water quality and reclamation laws pertaining to oil and gas development
- Flaring issues, solutions, and technologies (EFD)
- EPA Natural Gas Star program
- Law student thesis advocating for adaptive management of public lands in the Uinta Basin to improve air quality
Real-time and Forecast Data for Uintah Basin Air Quality
- Real-time air quality data for the Uintah Basin (USU)
- Utah DAQ Roosevelt Ceilometer
- Download Utah air quality data, including CSV files for the most recent 8 days
- U of U atmospheric data from 2013
- Uintah County 3-day air quality forecast (Utah DEQ)
- Duchesne County 3-day air quality forecast (Utah DEQ)
- 3-day air quality forecast for all monitored counties in Utah (Utah DEQ)
- FIRMS firemapper
- HYSPLIT air transport trajectory generator
- NOAA Snow Cover / Remote Sensing Center
- NASA near-real time satellite visualization, including snow cover
- DEQ website to look up environmental spill reports in Utah
Information About Uintah Basin Air Quality
- Special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics about Uintah Basin air quality
- Report to Utah DAQ: Improvements to CAMx Snow Cover Treatments and Carbon Bond Chemical Mechanism for Winter Ozone (Environ)
- Section of the Utah Code establishing the Uintah Basin Air Quality Research Project at the USU Bingham Center
Air Quality and Health
- Air quality and health handouts (Intermountain Health)
- Health effects from ozone pollution (EPA)
- Oil and gas and your health (Colorado DPHE)
- Uinta Basin adverse birth outcomes study (Utah State Health Department)
Other Air Quality Websites
- Real-time air quality in Wyoming (Wyoming DEQ)
- Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming, reports and technical documents
- Utah Air Quality Science Conference Series
- Utah DAQ Science for Solutions grants page