The Utah Division of Air Quality (UDAQ) recently provided letters to major sources in the Northern Wasatch Front non-attainment area (all or part of Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, and Tooele counties) indicating that they anticipate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reclassify the Nonattainment Area from marginal to moderate according to a November 18, 2020 […]

On October 14, 2020 the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it had sent a letter to vehicle and engine manufacturers encouraging them to disclose by the end of the year any unapproved hardware or software programs that impact emission control systems in vehicles sold in California. CARB’s letter specifies both large and small, on […]

The United States may have set itself up for the spread of a pandemic without even knowing it. According to new research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, pollution may bear part of the blame for the rapid proliferation in the United States of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for […]

Coyhaique, a city in southern Chile with a population of a little over 50 thousand inhabitants, was the most polluted city in Latin America in 2019, based on fine air particulate matter concentration (PM2.5) according to a September 8, 2020 Statistica report. That year, the city reported an average PM2.5 concentration of 41.5 μg/m³ (micrograms […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2020   AIR-SONIC, A MIRATECH Company, to Open First Catalyst Wash Facility in Europe. Tulsa, Oklahoma – August 27, 2020 – AIR-SONIC, a MIRATECH Company, is set to open the first catalyst washing facility in Europe. The state-of-the-art catalyst chemical washing facility is scheduled to open on Oct. 1, 2020 […]