Environment
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Powering data centers on nuclear? That’s a tough sell in Utah’s coal country.
Valar Atomics, a nuclear startup, plans to build a mega-complex of 456 small modular reactors — a still largely untested and unproven technology in the United States — on the vast tracts of Bureau of Land Management land in Carbon County.
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After Trump opened Bears Ears land to business, prospectors swooped in
On September 11, the first day the 1.2 million acres were opened up from Bears Ears National Monument, miners filed 16 claims.
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Utahns support protecting national monuments that Trump downsized
New polling shows that two-thirds of registered voters in Utah support restoring protections for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
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Nuclear power drive boosts southwestern uranium mills — and tribal health concerns
For decades, the White Mesa Mill has sparked debate over whether radioactive contamination threatens human health by getting into the water and the air.
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The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of U.S. western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says
A groundbreaking attribution study links 122 “carbon majors” to trillions of gallons in missing snowpack and depleted river flows.
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Scientists define a new category of heat wave: ‘Snow eaters’
Scientists have started calling these kinds of heat waves, marked by unusually high temperatures in the spring and early summer, “snow eaters.”
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Utah is killing the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River and the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.
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A massive data center could spike local temperatures by 28 degrees
For one Northern Utah family, concerns over the Stratos Project stem from both personal and business reasons.
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Trump shrinks two Utah national monuments — and opened them to mining
Repeating a move from his first presidency, President Donald Trump cut two national monuments by roughly 90% this week.
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Utah’s ‘reckless burning laws’–and their penalties–explained
Of the 432 wildfires currently burning in Utah, 300 of them were caused by people. What are the financial liabilities of those complicit in causing a wildfire in Utah?
