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Utah ranks first for drought and second for toxic air pollutants.
Utah is such a winner—a pretty, great state and all that.
Miss: In the Air Utah is such a winner—a pretty, great state and all that. And we keep on winning. The Environmental Protection Agency just awarded Utah the No. 2 spot for total toxic chemical releases. We like to hail Kennecott Copper Mine as the largest open-pit mine in the world and now it's so much more, releasing millions of pounds of arsenic, lead, selenium, mercury and other chemicals for our brains to take in.
Have we mentioned that Utah is No. 1 as the only state totally in a drought? It's not as though we didn't know this.
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