A bill to halt new uranium mining claims near the Grand Canyon cleared a key committee vote Wednesday and is heading to the floor for a vote by the full House of Representatives.
If passed, HR1373,... Read Original Story
DELTA, Utah — The smokestack at Intermountain Power Plant looms mightily over rural Utah, belching steam and pollution across a landscape of alfalfa fields and desert shrub near the banks of the... Read More
Utah will get up to $20 million over the next four years to protect communities and watersheds in forest areas from the threat of catastrophic wildfire, Gov. Gary Herbert announced Tuesday. Read Original Story
President Donald Trump rejected recommendations from the Department of Commerce late Friday that likely would have revived uranium mining in Utah and beyond, but the president also created a working... Read Original Story
For the past 10 years I’ve been documenting the fate of the least protected and most at-risk portion of the national commons: the roughly 450 million acres across 12 Western states overseen on our... Read Original Story
Nancy Kile won’t drink water from the tap. Not many people in Crawford, Nebraska do, she says, because they fear the local groundwater is contaminated with uranium. At the Crow Butte Mine, not far... Read Original Story
Three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is at the heart of some of the most remote terrain in the lower 48. Famous for its red rock canyons,... Read Original Story
In Boulder, Utah the co-owners of the Hell’s Backbone Grill, a restaurant in the shadow of the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, are fighting the recent Trump administration decision to... Read Original Story
