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 Stories About: toxics AND Utah
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Goshutes, nukes, poverty, and the environment
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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 ... |
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| Topics: nuclear power, toxics, Utah, waste (all these topics) |
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Keep the Pedal From the Metal
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, toxics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Is This the Place?
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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 ... |
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| Topics: pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Utah (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: toxics, Utah (all these topics) |
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