Controversial bill that taps Utah transportation money for water projects...
A controversial bill with the potential to fund unpopular water projects like the Lake Powell Pipeline has secured legislative approval from both the House and Senate. SB80 was originally designed to...
View ArticleBluff locals seek to connect town to San Juan River with trails
The San Juan River runs through a broad flood plain a half-mile south of Bluff, the southeastern Utah town that boasts its founding in the year A.D. 650 — a good 12 centuries before the arrival of...
View ArticleUtah air quality advocates see small steps rather than 'bold' success on the...
Advocates’ hopes for an unexpected air quality victory were raised, then dashed Thursday night when the Utah House reversed its decision to reject Rocky Mountain Power’s STEP legislation, with...
View ArticleContentious Rocky Mountain Power bill fails, but backers may try resuscitation
Rocky Mountain Power’s STEP legislation failed narrowly in the House Thursday afternoon, but environmentalists remain concerned that the bill may return from the dead. SB115 — which would restructure...
View Article13 Utah lawmakers change votes, pass Rocky Mountain Power plan
Advocates’ hopes for an unexpected air quality victory were raised, then dashed Thursday night when the Utah House reversed its decision to reject Rocky Mountain Power’s STEP legislation, with...
View ArticleStudy shows spike in ER visits on Utah's bad air days
Emergency room visits increased on bad air days during the winter of 2014, according to a new state analysis that shows a correlation between Salt Lake City’s polluted winter air and respiratory...
View ArticleColorado business leaders tell the EPA to make Utah clean up the haze in its air
More than 100 Colorado business leaders are calling for increased pollution restrictions at two Utah power plants, joining thousands of others who’ve answered the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
View ArticleCheaper power bill? Utah consumer advocates say rate-decrease request is...
Rocky Mountain Power’s announcement that the company plans to request a “slight price decrease for Utah customers” doesn’t mean the utility is offering to cut customers’ electricity rates, according...
View ArticleWildlife advocates sue to speed up protections for Virgin River fish found in...
The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit on Wednesday against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), arguing that the federal agency has delayed its decision on legal protection for the...
View ArticleUtah's coal-export deal still faces high hurdles
The Utah Legislature last week approved a $53 million investment in an Oakland, Calif., export terminal, but the state’s coal-shipping aspirations may still be just a dream. So far, Utah is the only...
View ArticlePopular American Fork reservoir closed for summer during dam renovation
Construction has started on a $7.3 million dam-rehabilitation project that will close a busy fishing destination in American Fork Canyon for the rest of the year. Federal authorities have drained...
View ArticleJust 3% of Utah kids are tested for dangerous lead exposure
Few Utah children are tested for exposure to lead — a situation that state agencies are taking steps to change amid calls for increased monitoring by a Utah environmental group and the American...
View ArticleAir pollution spikes during Utah's July 4 revelry
Holiday revelries and hot, dry weather could combine this weekend to produce unhealthy levels of air pollution in the Salt Lake Valley and other areas, state regulators say. The most densely populated...
View ArticleSmall gift initiates huge Bear River conservation effort
John Ferry’s farm and ranch occupies a large piece of Box Elder County along the Bear River, but the family has held a slice for ducks, deer and other wildlife that congregate in the fecund delta...
View ArticleFrom the Donner Party to endurance runners and rockets: Declining Bonneville...
One hundred and seventy years ago, the ill-fated Donner-Reed Party made a mistake that would deplete the travelers’ resources and seal their snowy fate in the Sierra Nevada when they decided to take a...
View ArticleHoliday fireworks fueled spikes of unhealthy pollution in Utah
Fun with fireworks pushed air quality well into unhealthy categories across multiple Utah counties on the Fourth of July and, in some counties, on multiple occasions throughout the weekend. Salt Lake...
View ArticleAre Utah taxpayers footing bill for land-transfer lawyers' lavish travel?
Lawyers and other consultants promoting Utah’s bid to take control of public lands have billed the state for luxury travel as well as for work that appears outside the scope of their contracts,...
View Article148 million years later, the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah remains...
Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry • About 148 million years have passed since dozens of corpses of meat-eating dinosaurs were deposited here, just north of the San Rafael Swell and about 30 miles...
View ArticleUtah isn't removing support for Oakland coal port project
Backers of a Utah plan to spend $53 million in public money on an Oakland, Calif.,-coal shipping terminal aren’t withdrawing their support for the project even after the California city threw up a...
View ArticleVolunteers unleash $8,000 worth of weed-eating weevil on Jordan River trail
Most gardeners will tell you weevils are bad news. But on Friday morning, volunteers worked to release tens of thousands of the insects on the Jordan River Parkway Trail. This particular variety of...
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