Northeastern Utah, home to recalcitrant oil deposits ripe for fracking, is edging into the national energy debate as yet another frontline battle against fossil fuel extraction.
This time it is a... Read Original Story
BY JIM MIMIAGA
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has been awarded a $9 million federal grant to upgrade its water and wastewater infrastructure in Towaoc and White Mesa.
The grant, issued through rural... Read Original Story
BY RYAN HEINSIUS
Conservationists have asked state officials to deny air-pollution permits for three uranium mines near the Grand Canyon... Read Original Story
BY JOY MARTIN
There’s something in the air, and it’s better than Mary Poppins. It’s a fresh breeze stirred by a group of young climate change activists setting up camp for the Uplift Climate... Read Original Story
BY JULIE TURKEWITZ
The Navajo Nation filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Environmental Protection Agency and several corporations, saying that poisoned water that flowed from a punctured Colorado... Read Original Story
BY KEVIN FEDARKO
“If you break loose here, you can’t stop. You’re going into the abyss,” barks Rich Rudow. Normally he is unflappable, but as he knows too well, this is no place to let down one’s... Read Original Story
BY DEAN B. SUAGEE
The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorizes the President to proclaim national monuments to protect historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic... Read Original Story
BY SONJA HOROSHKO
Just prior to Interior Secretary Sally’s Jewell’s July 16 listening session in Bluff, Utah, about a possible Bears Ears National Monument, U.S. representatives Rob Bishop and Jason... Read Original Story
