A bill that would have increased the amount of taxes oil and natural gas drillers pay to the state of Utah didn’t make it far in a legislative committee yesterday. Salt Lake City Democratic Representative Brian King says Utah energy companies have been getting a bailout from the state since the 1980s, and now it’s time to stop.
Energy innovation in the United States has stalled, but with transformational change, it can get running again. That’s the message Jeff Muhs, director of Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory, will deliver tomorrow night as he kicks off the Utah Museum of Natural History’s 2011 Nature of Things Lecture Series.
Governor Gary Herbert is making a new push to bring a nuclear power plant to the state. Is that a good idea? We talked with Christopher Thomas, Executive Director of HEAL Utah.
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