BY TIMOTHY EGAN
Not long ago, I went to the top of Crater Mountain searching for a trace of the last living Beat poet, Gary Snyder. His fire lookout at 8,128 feet, where he scanned the summits of the... Read Original Story
BY GARY HARMON
The White River meanders through Utah on its way to joining the Green River, flowing slowly through land on which an energy company hopes to develop its oil shale holdings.
Opponents... Read Original Story
BY MOLLY MARCELLO
A coalition of nine groups, including law firms and organizations throughout Utah and the West, has formally requested a federal investigation into Utah’s allocation of $53 million... Read Original Story
BY EVAN HALL
Several groups are calling on the federal government to investigate legal concerns surrounding SB 246, a Utah law that authorizes funding for a coal export terminal in Oakland,... Read Original Story
BY STEPHEN TRIMBLE
We think we’ve saved the Grand Canyon. We established a national park that is supposed to remain “forever unimpaired,” as the Park Service’s enabling legislation put it. But the... Read Original Story
BY LORETTA YERIAN
On June 15, an amendment to block the creation of new national monuments, including the Grand Canyon Watershed in Arizona, Utah and several other states, was passed during a U.S.... Read Original Story
BY ABIGAIL WISE
The Issue: Uranium MiningCanadian firm Energy Fuels plans to resume operations—and with it the threat of contamination—at Canyon Mine, just nine miles from the South Rim. Activists... Read Original Story
BY BRIAN MAFFLY
A proposed oil-shale mine and processing plant would generate up to 23 million tons of spent shale, yet Enefit American Oil has not revealed how it intends to safely manage this waste... Read Original Story
