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Understanding Tier 3 in Utah

Author: DEQ Communications Office

jmendenhall. “Understanding Tier 3 in Utah.” Utah Department of Environmental Quality, 17 Feb. 2020, https://deq.utah.gov/air-quality/understanding-tier-3-in-utah.


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Since 2017, when Gov. Gary Herbert announced that Utah refineries would start producing Tier 3 gas, Utah residents have had a lot of questions about the cleaner fuel.

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In this week’s installment of #IamUtahDEQ video series, we take a ride with Glade Sowards, a policy analyst with Utah’s Division of Air Quality, to get the answers to all your Tier 3 questions. Check it out at the video above.

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The Tier 3 program is part of a comprehensive approach to reducing the impacts of vehicles on air quality and public health. Tier 3 considers the vehicle and its fuel as an integrated system, setting new vehicle emissions standards and a new gasoline standard. The standards took effect in 2017. In January 2019, the major refineries along the Wasatch Front started producing the new low-sulfur fuel. Today, it is available to residents throughout Utah.

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2024 Evan Chisholm 2024 Evan Chisholm (Nov 01 2023 3:42PM) : Tier 3 fuel is designed to reduce emissions in factories and cars. Utah is implementing currently.
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2024 Evan Chisholm 2024 Evan Chisholm (Nov 01 2023 3:43PM) : Tier 3 fuel has a lower sulfur level than other fuels used before the itnroduction of tier 3. The lower sulfur level is intended to be better for the planet and it's people.
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2024 Evan Chisholm 2024 Evan Chisholm (Nov 01 2023 3:44PM) : The oil refinery by my house in Bonutiful is currently integrating tier 3 fuel into their system but have not yet fully made the switch to all tier 3.
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