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Three recent articles in The Journal shared three approaches to community issues. Pleasant View neighbors don't want to see solar panels on their neighbor's property because they'd rather see farming ...

In December, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an Unacceptability Notice to a uranium mill located near Bears Ears National Monument, but the agency has revised that notice.The EPA singled out the condition of a tailings pond at White Mesa Mill in southern Utah. It said the pond was not entirely covered in water as required by law, and raised concerns over radon

In December, the Environmental Protection Agency warned that a uranium mill in southern Utah was in violation of environmental guidelines.Conservationists have found little has changed since then.The EPA found that the mill operator had failed to cover a tailings cell with enough water, which helps reduce radon emissions into the atmosphere.The agency wrote that the condition

The latest Utah news for Tuesday evening, Mar. 15, 2022

Members of a nearby tribal community say the site is negatively impacting their health and calling for it to shut down.

The White Mesa uranium mill, located just a mile from Bears Ears National Monument, now houses more than 700 million pounds of toxic waste — making the Utah desert site “America’s cheapest radioactive waste dump,” a new report has found.

The need for energy-transition metals breathes life into new mines in the West.

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.

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Michael Quinn, NPS For many of us, 2020 has had its ups and downs. While our vision of the year didn’t include a global pandemic, the outpouring of support, community involvement, and activism we’ve seen this year has been inspiring. Like so many others, we joined hundreds of Zoom calls from makeshift coffee table desks, got in our steps with walk-and-talk meetings, and halted our travel to Washington D.C. and field sites. Despite the unprecedented challenges, our eyes remained on our miss...