Standard-Examiner Editorial Board Standard-Examiner March 18th, 2018 Promontory Point Resources doesn’t want you to know its plans for a landfill on a lonely peninsula in the Great Salt Lake. No, that’s stating it too mildly. Promontory Point Resources desperately doesn’t want you to know its plans for a landfill on…
Associated Press U.S. News February 26th, 2018 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A legislative proposal would allow Utah‘s 168 landfills to do self-inspections in an attempt to increase sagging oversight without raising taxes to fund increased inspections. The House Public Utilities, Energy and Technology Committee took a liking to the proposal…
Robert Gehrke Salt Lake Tribune January 18th, 2017 During the past week or so, Sen. Todd Weiler has taken to social media to make the case that the Legislature has been aggressively attacking Utah’s air quality problems, and it’s paying off in cleaner air. Great. Maybe if we all stand…
Cherise Udell Salt Lake Tribune January 2, 2018 The Utah Department of Environmental Air Quality sent an alert recently that our nasty, stinky air continues to be “unhealthy for sensitive groups.” This is an understatement of monumental proportions. Our nasty, stinky air is unhealthy for anyone who has lungs. This…
Brady McCombs AP News 9/11/2017 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An appeals court granted a request Monday from President Donald Trump’s administration to halt a plan for new pollution controls at Utah’s oldest coal-fired power plants aimed at reducing haze near national parks. The development marks a reversal for the…
LEIA LARSEN Standard-Examiner TUESDAY , MAY 30, 2017 Air quality in Northern Utah can feel perplexing. Most residents realize there’s a smog problem in the winter and an ozone problem in the summer. They see headlines about Utah cities occasionally having the worst air in the nation, but hear state…
By Emma Penrod Published January 16, 2017 Salt Lake Tribune Utah faces a host of environmental challenges in 2017, but state officials say they are making one their top priority: air quality. The state may need new initiatives for reducing levels of small-particulate pollution, the culprit associated with Utah’s wintertime…
LEIA LARSEN, Standard-Examiner DECEMBER 31, 2016 Wasatch Front residents know wintertime doesn’t just mean shoveling snow and slipping on ice — it also means a sickening buildup of smog. Most Utah residents have also heard that spending less time on the road is the best way to improve air quality…
BRIAN MAFFLY The Salt Lake Tribune Dec 10 2016 02:51PM The permanent closure of PacifiCorp’s once-productive Deer Creek coal mine is nearing completion, but the utility still must figure out what to do with the millions of gallons of metals-laced water backing up in the Emery County mine. Currently,…
Emma Penrod August 12, 2016 The Salt Lake Tribune State officials say the Price River is safe for recreation and irrigation and that Rocky Mountain Power should be able to handle any future storms like the one that discharged an estimated 2,700 cubic yards of coal ash into the Price…
