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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)

Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Bambi Vs. Thumper		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Bambi Vs. Thumper The Bush administration's plan to expand fossil fuel exploration in the West ran into an obstacle Wednesday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the Interior Department from allowing energy prospecting on thousands of acres of public land in Utah. The ruling halted a project by a seismic exploration company to search for oil and gas reserves in Utah's Arches National Pa ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, national parks, politics, Utah (all these topics)

Keep the Pedal From the Metal		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Keep the Pedal From the Metal The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is barring off-road enthusiasts from one of their favorite playgrounds in Utah -- but this time, it's to safeguard their own health, not that of the environment. At Manning Canyon, a recreation area near Salt Lake City, the soil is contaminated with arsenic, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals f ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, toxics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

The Saints Haven't Come Marching in		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Saints Haven't Come Marching in Almost 75 percent of Utah residents object to plans to store tons of nuclear waste at the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, 50 miles outside of Salt Lake City -- so why isn't the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Utah's main opinion-setter, taking a stand on the issue? So far, the silence of the Mormon leadership on the issue has set the tone for the entire opposition movement, accord ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

Paradise Without the Dashboard Light		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Paradise Without the Dashboard Light The word "Zion" means a peaceful paradise -- and for the past two years, Zion National Park has lived up to its name. Two summers ago, the famed Utah destination became the first national park in the continental U.S. to ban automobiles during peak visitor season. The resulting changes have been dramatic: fresh air, peace and quiet, the sounds of nature, and the r ...
Topics: national parks, placemaking, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

High-tailing it out of there		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
High-tailing it out of there The Colorado River -- the water source for 25 million Americans -- is almost certainly on a collision course with a massive pile of uranium slag, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Energy's National Research Council. The 12 million tons of tailings, located near Moab, Utah, are left over from a uranium mill that provide ...
Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, water pollution (all these topics)

Is This the Place?		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
Is This the Place? Tooele County, Utah, is already the hazardous heartland of the United States -- the place where the Army tests anthrax and other chemical, nerve, and biological agents, and incinerates half of the nation's chemical weapons; where the Air Force has its largest bombing and cruise missile ranges; where a private company buries low-level nuclear waste; and where some of ...
Topics: pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Utah (all these topics)

If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids The 2002 Winter Olympics open tomorrow in Salt Lake City, and not everybody's thrilled about it. Environmentalists say developers took advantage of the games to permanently damage the pristine Rocky Mountain environment, even though protecting the natural world is now the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, deforestation, logging, outdoor recreation, placemaking, US Forest Service, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Retirement Party		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Retirement Party Utah Republican Jim Hansen, who has served 11 terms in the U.S. House, most recently as chair of the Resources Committee, announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection this year. The announcement came as a surprise to even some of his closest staff members -- and a welcome one to environmentalists. Hansen started off light green, proposing a recycling measure while se ...
Topics: green living, politics, recycling, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Coughing in a Winter Wonderland		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coughing in a Winter Wonderland Be glad you're not on the planning committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. First there was terrorism to worry about; now there's the weather. Salt Lake's squeaky-clean image could suffer a blow if the world gets a glimpse of the woeful air pollution that plagues the city in the winter. Snow in Salt Lake City usually means a temperature inversion, ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

This Is Not the Place		12 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
This Is Not the Place Utah's teachers unions will consider resolutions tonight opposing the storage of radioactive waste in the state and the use of taxes from such waste to fund schools. The proposals are designed to counter efforts by lobbyists to convince Utah residents that nuclear waste storage would be good for the state and its students. Calling for school funding to come from other sources, American Federation of Teachers ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

Desert Storm Utah residents fight back against toxic contamination	Elizabeth Grossman	04 Oct 2000	Arts and Minds
This is the place. Photo: BLM. With its red rock canyons, snow covered peaks, alkali plains, slickrock, and Great Salt Lake, the varied terrain of Utah forms strikingly beautiful landscapes. This arresting scenery drew Chip Ward and family to the state in the 1970s, and persuaded them to settle in the seemingly placid town of Grantsville on the edge of Utah's West Desert. The West Desert, like ...
Topics: toxics, Utah (all these topics)

Roadless to Utopia		18 Jul 2000	Daily Grist
Roadless to Utopia A group of enviros from around the U.S. descended on Salt Lake City yesterday to deliver to the U.S. Forest Service 700,000 comments supporting a Clinton administration plan to ban road-building on 40 million acres of roadless national forest land. Enviros also called for the plan to be strengthened by explicitly prohibiting helicopter logging, mining, and off-road vehicle use and by including the Tongass N ...
Topics: deforestation, politics, Utah (all these topics)

Fire on the Mountain	Ben White	13 Apr 2000	Muckraker
Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ...
Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC, West Virginia, World Bank, Wyoming (all these topics)

More Internet Smut A scientist fights back against exotics	Lisa Jones	11 Apr 2000	Main Dish
The Western U.S. has many well-known problems -- overgrazing, rampant development, Garth Brooks look-alikes. But one troublesome issue that hasn't gotten much attention is cheatgrass, an exotic weed that arrived here in the 1890s and has since taken over an area the size of Montana. Cheatgrass never prospers? Photo: Russel Stevens/Chuck Coffey, Noble Foundation. Because cheatgrass (aka: downy brome, junegrass, a ...
Topics: Utah, wildlife (all these topics)

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas Higher prices at the pumps are a good thing -- really	Mathew Gross, Writers on the Range	08 Mar 2000	Soapbox
That whining sound you hear is American consumers (formerly known as American citizens) fretting over the rising cost of gasoline. Pump and circumstance. The current national average price of gas -- $1.41 per gallon -- is a full 25 cents higher than it was merely four months ago, and analysts predict that the price could hit $1.80 per gallon before supplies catch up with d ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, gas prices, placemaking, United States, Utah (all these topics)

Bee All That You Can Be This scientist is making quite a buzz	Lisa Jones	23 Sep 1999	Main Dish
The San Rafael Desert -- 500 square miles of rolling gravel broken by an occasional butte or sandstone formation -- certainly isn't the prettiest place in eastern Utah. Dotted with cattle and exploratory oil rigs, it is a living example of the federal government's policy of multiple use on public lands. For just about anybody driving along its western edge, the desert is an unremarkable preamble to the celebr ...
Topics: scientific research, Utah, wildlife (all these topics)

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