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Our climate is changing. We can keep arguing about what’s causing it or whose fault it is (or isn’t) and what we should be doing about it, but the reality is our Earth is a different place than it was one million years ago, 100 years ago and even one year ago.  Since last Earth Day, the severity of wildfires has continued to escalate—which, along with other factors, has contributed to our worsening air quality—and current drought conditions have warranted a state of emergency in Utah, ...

It’s time for Utah to transition to clean energy Christi Leman © Ravell Call, Deseret News Windmills turn at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Thirty years ago, I was a kid living in a small, hot town surrounded by oil pumps. Almost everyone’s dad worked in the oil fields, and the air was often scented with a lovely, sulphurous, rotten-egg smell. “That’s the smell of money, honey,” they’d say. Popular Searches And it was. The harvesting...

Andie Madsen: You can’t vaccinate yourself against the effects of global warming What have we brushed aside to make way for our COVID-19 response? (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Aslam Khan, 52, shuts his eyes tightly as he receives his first free Moderna vaccination from Kimberly Desmond with Salt Lake County Health Department on Thursday. Over 120 people were scheduled to get their first shots of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines at the Utah Islamic Center in West Jordan, Mar. ...

Why is this physicist challenging climate science? Amy Joi ODonoghue © Steve Griffin, Deseret News Bill Pekny uses a monitor to check carbon dioxide levels outside of his home in Midway on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Pekny is a local author and scientist and agrees the climate is warming, but he says that we are in a normal cycle of warming and panic is unwarranted. Utah author Bill Pekny wrote a book with 13 chapters describing climate change, full of charts, colorful graphics an...

Deseret News Share this story Bill Pekny uses a monitor to check carbon dioxide levels outside of his home in Midway on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Pekny is a local author and scientist and agrees the climate is warming, but he says that we are in a normal cycle of warming and panic is unwarranted. Steve Griffin, Deseret News Utah author Bill Pekny wrote a book with 13 chapters describing climate change, full of charts, colorful graphics and “key takeaways” after each segment in which he impress...

More government workers will be out of their cars and in their home offices on days in Utah when air pollution is at unhealthy levels thanks to passage of a telecommuting bill.

Deseret News Lawmakers dive into environmental issues during 2021 legislative session Share this story Cars travel north and south along I-15 in South Salt Lake on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. More government workers will be out of their cars and in their home offices on days in Utah when air pollution is at unhealthy levels thanks to passage of a telecommuting bill that requires eligible state employees to stay put during certain times of the years. Annie Barker, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — More...

Letter: If elected officials spent money on things they pretend to believe in, Utah would flourish (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People stand outside the House floor on the second to last day of the general legislative session at the Utah Capitol on Thursday, March 4, 2021. By Patricia Becnel | The Public Forum   | March 7, 2021, 1:00 p.m. I am amazed at the hypocrisy in some of our Republican lawmakers. They say one thing and do another. In 2019, the Legislature commissioned...

Cameron Carter writes that Utah needs to start taking climate change seriously, lest it wind up like Texas.

Former Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski writes that Utah is particularly susceptible to climate change and we should be supporting President Joe Biden's efforts to address it.