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Aaron Clement drives one of the massive trucks at the world's largest open pit copper mine.'It's like moving a house,' he jokes.Clement, who works at Rio Tinto Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine truck shop, participated in a pilot project with a new type of fuel for the giant mining equipment. They switched from a traditional fossil fuel to a 'renewable diesel' made up of soybean and food waste. The company has even installed a special pipeline for it at the mine.
Northern Utah has consistently struggled with air quality. The topography of the Wasatch Front contributes to an inversion that traps pollution in the Ogden, Salt Lake and Utah valleys. But state leaders insist air quality has improved in recent years as Utahns adopt cleaner burning fossil fuels or switch to electric vehicles.'Even though we’re growing as a state, it’s not just our emissions per capita but our overall net emissions have been dropping significantly,' Gov. Cox said.
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