Standard-Examiner: Wasatch Front Counties Get An 'F' For Air Quality

Sodden query: What is Ms. Spangler's Utah Department of Air Quality agenda?

Another Day in Paradise

Discomforting story on the Standard-Examiner front page this morning.  We'd suppose however that for those readers who suffer from lung ailments or heart conditions... or otherwise struggle breathing our Wasatch Front air, there are really no big surprises here at all:

• Wasatch Front counties get an 'F' for air quality

According to this morning's story, "Donna Kemp Spangler, spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Air Quality (UDAQ, was quick to attack the report as politically motivated." The numbers are "skewed" and the American Lung Association "has an agenda," sez UDAQ flak-catcher and air pollution industry apologist Ms. Spangler.

Yesiree folks, the American Lung Association does have an agenda.  Ms. Spangler's entirely correct. We know this of course, because we checked their website, which spells out their "evil" agenda in black and white:

The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through Education, Advocacy and Research. With the generous support of the public, we are "Fighting for Air."
For over 100 years, the American Lung Association has led the fight for healthy lungs and healthy air. Today, our fight is more important than ever.
Whether it's searching for cures to lung diseases, keeping kids off tobacco or fighting for laws that protect the air we all breathe, the work of the American Lung Association helps to save lives every day.

That's the ALA agenda, folks. Scary, innit?

Sodden query: What is Ms. Spangler's own  UDAQ agenda? Kissing up to her boss Gary Herbert, perhaps?