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Rocky Anderson The Salt Lake City mayor is doing amazing green things	David Roberts	03 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I just got done with a long and interesting conversation with Salt Lake City's hard-charging mayor, Rocky Anderson. If you haven't been following the guy, check out this remarkable article in The Nation. Prepare to have your accustomed-to-bad-news socks knocked off. Since his election in 1999, he's implemented a comprehensive plan to green the city and meet Kyoto emissions targets (actually, SLC has already far exceeded the targets, six years ahead of schedule). He ...
Topics: local politics, politics, Utah (all these topics)

This Blurb Brought to You By 'Your Company Name Here' Utah basketball arena renamed for nuclear-waste corporation		11 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
This Blurb Brought to You By "Your Company Name Here" Utah basketball arena renamed for nuclear-waste corporation Here in Seattle, home of Qwest and Safeco fields, we know well how corporations have rushed the pro-sports playing field. But our McMonikers are nothing next to Utah's latest rechristening: The Salt Lake City stadium that's home to the Utah Jazz, formerly the Delta Center, is now known a ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, outdoor recreation, Utah (all these topics)

Now Utah-kin Salt Lake City requires LEED certification for city-funded buildings		09 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Now Utah-kin Salt Lake City requires LEED certification for city-funded buildings Salt Lake City, Utah, known for its salty lake and Mormons, may soon also be known for its green buildings. Developers funded by city money will be required to erect buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program, city council members decided unanimously on Tuesday. (Oh, Tuesday -- it was a great day.) The new ordinance is " ...
Topics: news, placemaking, Utah (all these topics)

Goshute in the Foot Interior Department blocks interim nuke-waste site in Utah		11 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Goshute in the Foot Interior Department blocks interim nuke-waste site in Utah The Interior Department has blocked an interim nuclear-waste storage plant on a Native reservation in appropriately named Skull Valley, Utah. The department denied a lease and transportation plan for the site, which was to hold 44,000 tons of nuclear waste in above-ground casks about an hour's drive from Salt Lake City. The dep ...
Topics: Department of Interior, news, nuclear power, Utah (all these topics)

That Thing Utah Do! Bill to sell federal land in Utah could set off cascade of land sales		07 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
That Thing Utah Do! Bill to sell federal land in Utah could set off cascade of land sales In the American West, many of the fastest-growing regions contain the most federally owned land, which limits expansion. This puts developers, local officials, and the vacation-home set in conflict with the public interest, and ... well, we hardly need to finish that sentence, right? Some members of Congress from Western st ...
Topics: news, placemaking, Utah, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Goshutes, nukes, poverty, and the environment	Lisa Hymas	14 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Here's a perfect illustration of the ugly intersection of poverty and environmental degradation: the fight over whether the Goshute tribe of Utah should be able to use its reservation as a holding site for highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants around the country. Time's Margot Roosevelt describes the tribe's stark, denuded homeland: To the southwest lies the Dugway Proving Ground, where the U.S. government develops chemical and biological weapons. To the e ...
Topics: nuclear power, toxics, Utah, waste (all these topics)

Utahward Bound NRC approves nuke-waste dump on Utah Indian reservation		24 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Utahward Bound NRC approves nuke-waste dump on Utah Indian reservation This week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed the nation's largest -- and only private -- radioactive-waste storage facility, to be located on the (prophetically named?) Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah. It's a major win for the nuclear industry, which desperately needs a dump site for spent fuel rods piling up at power plants around the countr ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, Utah (all these topics)

Lights, Camera, Traction Al Gore and electric car star in films unveiled at Sundance	Dan Bree	02 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
At 25 years of age, Sundance is the country's premier festival of independent film. But a lot has changed over that quarter century. Well, actually, one thing has changed: m-o-n-e-y. There's a ton of Hollywood cash spent at Sundance, and I could see it everywhere I looked last week. The "VIP" corporate parties on Main Street. The piles of free stuff for celebrities. The Moviefon ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, cars, climate, electric vehicles, green living, movies, placemaking, renewable energy, Utah (all these topics)

Touch and Goshute Feds approve nuclear-waste dump on Utah tribe's land		12 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Touch and Goshute Feds approve nuclear-waste dump on Utah tribe's land On Friday, the Bush administration approved a controversial $3.1 billion plan for a massive temporary radioactive-waste dump on a Utah Indian reservation -- a win for nuclear-power interests. A private firm and the sovereign Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians struck up the agreement for the repository, so the plan has ...
Topics: environmental justice, news, politics, pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale		24 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale "We can safely say of our future with regard to oil and gas, it has yet to see its brightest days," said Rep. James Gibbons (R-Nev.) in a House subcommittee meeting yesterday. We know what you're thinking: What the ... ? Well, apparently Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are sitting on top of lots and ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, oil, politics, Utah, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back		05 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back Lake Powell is dropping by a foot every four days, thanks to ongoing drought in the West -- and many enviros couldn't be happier about it. Veteran conservation leader David Brower called the completion of Glen Canyon dam in 1963, and the subsequent drowning of the canyon and its many side canyons to create Lake Powell, the greatest disappoin ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, lakes, Utah (all these topics)

Utah, You've Been Norton'd! Interior Department protecting Utah rivers from wrong threat		01 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Utah, You've Been Norton'd! Interior Department protecting Utah rivers from wrong threat Last month, Interior Secretary Gale Norton splashily announced the Three Rivers Withdrawal: Nearly 200 miles of prized territory along Utah's Green, Colorado, and Dolores rivers would be withdrawn from consideration for new hard-rock mining claims. The proposal had been on her desk for 18 months, so some enviros suspe ...
Topics: mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, Utah (all these topics)

Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks In a move that could lead to more pollution in national parks, the Bush administration on Friday said it will permit North Dakota to change the way it estimates air pollution in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Seems like a small thing, but the new estimation formula is likely ...
Topics: energy, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

The Icky 500 New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Icky 500 New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days Newly minted U.S. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt gave his first major speech yesterday, promising to embark on the "most productive period of air-quality improvement in American history." The former Utah governor spoke of a 500-day plan for cleaner air but offered no details on it. (Instead, a leaked document detailed plans to relax reg ...
Topics: air pollution, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

Shrink Rap Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground		23 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Shrink Rap Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground If you're feeling a little low today, just consider the fate of Utah's Great Salt Lake -- which is feeling even lower, we guarantee. Following five years of drought, the famed lake is experiencing near-record lows and is dropping at a rate of about an inch per week. As a result, the surrounding wetlands -- prime insect an ...
Topics: lakes, outdoor recreation, Utah, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Ties That Blind Ties to Polluters Could Compromise Leavitt at EPA, Say Critics		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Ties That Blind Ties to Polluters Could Compromise Leavitt at EPA, Say Critics Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R), President Bush's nominee to head the U.S. EPA, has strong financial ties to polluters, which critics say cast doubt on his ability to do the job fairly and effectively. Nearly 10 percent of the campaign funds Leavitt raised over the last 10 years came from oil re ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

Love It or Leavitt Bush Taps Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to Head EPA		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Love It or Leavitt Bush Taps Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to Head EPA In a move that immediately (and predictably) generated strenuous objections from enviros, President Bush yesterday nominated three-term Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R) to take the helm at the U.S. EPA. Bush praised Leavitt as a consensus-builder and pointed to his bipartisan work with 13 governors and 13 tribal leaders to improve air quality in the Grand Canyon. Like Bush, L ...
Topics: politics, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

Beehive State Stung		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Beehive State Stung Outdoor recreation retailers are threatening to pull two trade shows out of Utah because they don't like Gov. Mike Leavitt's (R) efforts to curtail wilderness designations in the state. With $24 million in trade-show-generated revenue at stake, a worried Leavitt has agreed to meet with outdoor industry leaders to discuss the matter. "The governor is very willing to start talking abou ...
Topics: business, outdoor recreation, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

For Never Wild		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
For Never Wild A coalition of environmentalists has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its recent decision to prevent the Bureau of Land Management from considering any more Western land for wilderness designation. Areas set aside for protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act are protected from motorized recreation and most forms of development. In 1996, however, the state of Utah challenged t ...
Topics: Arizona, United States, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Wild Thing, I Think I Lost You		14 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Wild Thing, I Think I Lost You In a major blow to wilderness advocates in Utah and around the country, the Bush administration on Friday announced its intention to suspend new wilderness reviews of federal lands in the West and to remove protections from nearly 3 million acres in Utah that had been under consideration for wilderness status. The Interior Department, in settling a lawsuit filed by the s ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, politics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Road to Nowhere		10 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Road to Nowhere To the dismay of environmentalists, state and local officials in Utah will be able to claim the rights to thousands of miles of dirt roads on federal lands, under the terms of an agreement announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Utah Gov. Mark Leavitt (R). Leavitt and Norton said the deal would prevent unnecessary confusion and litigation over who has the right to control and maintain roads i ...
Topics: placemaking, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Skull and Bones		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Skull and Bones In a victory for environmentalists, public-safety advocates, and nuclear-watchdog organizations, the federal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board yesterday rejected plans for storing spent nuclear fuel in Skull Valley, Utah. The ruling was also a win for the state, which had lobbied against the proposed storage facility, slated to be built on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation, just a few miles from the bigge ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

Oinks Per Gallon		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oinks Per Gallon The waste from hundreds of thousands of hogs will soon be powering vehicle diesel engines if Smithfield Farms follows through on a plan announced Friday. Smithfield, the world's largest hog producer, intends to build a $20 million waste-to-energy facility in southwestern Utah that will convert swine manure into biodiesel fuel, which burns more cleanly tha ...
Topics: placemaking, renewable energy, solid waste treatment and disposal, Southwest, Utah (all these topics)

Just Goshute Me		19 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Just Goshute Me The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that it was not responsible for evaluating the potential environmental impacts of a terrorist attack on a proposed nuclear-waste storage facility in western Utah. Opponents of the $3.1 billion facility, which would be located about 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on sovereign lands belonging to Skull Valley Go ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

You're Out of the Club?		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
You're Out of the Club? A Utah chapter of the Sierra Club has been threatened with disbandment because of its decision to speak out against the possibility of a U.S. war against Iraq. The development may bring to a head a discussion that has been going on within the club throughout the fall. In October, 13 former national board members called on the organization to pass a resolution urging the Bush admini ...
Topics: Iraq, politics, Sierra Club, United States, Utah (all these topics)

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