Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker wants the state to do more to address air quality. Currently, the Wasatch Front has some of the worst air in the country, but Becker says state law is preventing more from being done.
Salt Lake City residents could soon be given more freedom when it comes to landscaping their yards. The Salt Lake City Council is discussing a plan that would allow more planting options to be grown in city-owned parking strips, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports there could be some problems standing in the way.
EnergySolutions is in the middle of a 1.1 billion dollar deal to be purchased by a private equity firm. If the deal goes through Energy Capital Partners would bring the company back into private ownership and out of debt. But as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, some worry the deal could bring other concerns for the state.
Studies show Wasatch Front residents are making changes on poor air quality days. Kate Lohnes, Salt Lake City’s Special Programs Manager says the state’s ‘Care to Clean the Air’ Program is in its third year and new data funded by the Environmental Protection Agency shows it’s making a difference.
More Utah businesses are learning what they can do to clean up the air. Yesterday the Salt Lake Chamber held its 2nd Annual Clean Air Conference to discuss how making small changes can benefit everyone’s quality of life while saving the company money at the same time. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports.
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality is implementing new rules for all solid fuel and coal burning devices as a way to predict red and yellow air-quality conditions sooner during the winter inversion season. Air Quality Division Director Bryce Bird says the state will now rate its air quality based on the national air quality…
Renewable energy use is on the rise, but the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. Green energy producers are looking for ways to generate a constant supply for a power hungry utility grid, and Utah’s unique geology may just provide the perfect tool.
Protesters gathered outside the Bureau of Land Management Office in downtown Salt Lake City yesterday, angry over the agency’s recent decision to approve thousands of acres of Utah land for tar sands development.
Thanks to a ruptured Chevron oil pipeline, more than 33,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Creek in June 2010. The spill not only killed wildlife, including waterfowl, fish, and the invertebrates they eat, but also caused park closures and many residents along the creek to become ill. Now more than two years later and with a comment period on the spill’s closure document set to open, the Utah Division of Water Quality says the creek is clean. Environmentalists disagree.
The fight between several conservation groups and the Talisker Corporation over SKILINK, the proposed Gondola linking the Canyons and Solitude Ski Resorts, continued over the weekend. The opposition held a fundraiser to help raise awareness of the project, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, those proposing SKILINK agree that awareness is exactly what the public needs.
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