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Salt Lake City issued a new warning for ozone pollution levels amid rising temperatures that are supposed to keep going up.

Utah nuclear fallout victims left to fend for themselves after Congress lets compensation program expire. Downwinders blame Utah delegation.

The Division of Wildlife Resources recently sprayed pesticides in the foothills of Millcreek and Parleys canyons to try to kill myrtle spurge, a nonnative invasive species of weed, worrying residents and one environmental advocacy group.

The move compounds pressure on coal communities to diversify their economies.

Tooele County residents and an activist group are asking the Surface Transportation Board to reconsider its approval of a planned railroad extension to serve a new industrial park, and hinting at a lawsuit if the board declines. The Lakeview Business Park project, a Romney Group development plan, would transform 1,000 acres of Grantsville into a […] The post Neighbors and environmental advocates file petition to reconsider building new Tooele rail line appeared first on Utah News Dispatch...

Center for Biological Diversity: Migratory Shorebird Faces Extinction Threat From Imminent Collapse of the Great Salt Lake

Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.

Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.

Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.

Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.