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Utah Business Recyclops announces the closing of a $3 million seed investment led by Lerer Hippeau and The Clorox Company. Other key investors include Utah-based Kickstart and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, part of AOL founder and prolific investor Steve Case’s DC-based venture capital firm Revolution that invests in seed and early-stage companies. Recyclops’ mission is to make recycling accessible and sustainable for all by bringing it to areas where it doesn’t currently exist. “People still care about recycling. They still want to recycle, even if their commun...

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, threatening not only our water but our precious snow and ski season.

1 of 2 A view of downtown Colorado Springs in front of Pikes Peak in the winter. Colorado Springs jumped 19 spots to 17th in the Milken Institute’s annual best-performing cities list but still ended up behind Denver, Fort Collins and its U.S. Space Command rival Huntsville, Ala. the gazette File Jamie Rogers, captaincoloradophotography

Evan Vucci, Associated Press Utah members of Congress aren’t sure what President Donald Trump’s last-minute opposition means for the coronavirus relief and federal funding bill Congress passed earlier this week. The outgoing president called the legislation a “disgrace” Tuesday, and is pushing lawmakers to increase the $600 direct payments to $2,000. “I’m not sure how we’ll work it out now given the controversy the president has added to the mix,” Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said. Romney and Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, spoke and answered questions about the COVID-19 package Wednes...

Constituents, we have to make things happen, we make no excuses. >> at a time when we've been struggling to come out of the great recession, we know that the next two years show inflation adjusted real growth among almost every metro economy in our country. >> here's what we've seen in the cities -- 97% of cities suffered declining economies, up through the last year. but this past year, 356 of 363 cities are actually showing true economic growth when adjusted for inflation. the question, of course, is how are they doing it? the latest index of the best-performing cities -- it might surprise s...