Radioactive Utah?
Post update: On October 25, 2018, the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control board unanimously voted to DENY EnergySolutions’ their exemption request on a…
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New Faces This Fall
Please help us in welcoming some new faces to HEAL — from staff and interns to board members and some four-legged friends. And if you…
Welcome to the Board, Zach!
Please welcome HEAL’s newest board member, Zach Michalk! Zach is a Texas native and studied urban and regional planning at Texas A&M, where he graduated…
A Trojan Horse, Zombie, & Little Engine Who Couldn’t
It comes as a surprise to new Utahns, who move here for the seemingly endless and diverse swaths of open space, to learn that one…
Utah’s interim session
As a kid, I thought teachers lived at school and slept in their classrooms, but I could never figure out what they did during the…
Utah’s (invisible) summertime blues
In Utah’s northern valleys, it’s hard to ignore our air pollution during the winter – our inversions trap small particulate matter (PM2.5) that becomes visible…
2018 Spring Breakfast: grandkids, a changing climate, & you!
Our Spring Breakfast, held on May 17th this year, has come and gone in a flash! If you didn’t hear, we had a special…
Welcome to HEAL Utah’s newest team member!
Welcome to our new Communications and Outreach Associate, Grace Olscamp! Grace joined HEAL Utah in early April, two weeks after knee surgery, excited and ready…
Inland Port Testimony by Jessica Reimer
My name is Jessica Reimer, and I am a policy associate with the environmental policy group HEAL Utah. I can’t say that I am speaking…
Coming Down the Line: The Last Half of the Legislative Session
Can you believe we are into the 5th week of the 2018 Utah Legislative Session? We at HEAL have been busy, busy: Our Policy Team,…