SALT LAKE CITY — The air quality remains poor in Utah due to wildfires raging in the West. As a result, state employees were asked to work from home both Monday and Tuesday.
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The hope being that fewer vehicles on the road would mean less emissions.
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Utah's department of environmental quality said, it expects the air for the next couple of days to be ijn the "unhealthy" or "unhealthy for sensitive groups" categories.