Helping to kick off Alternative Fuel Vehicle Awareness Month, Utah Paperbox unveiled five new electric vehicle-charging stations at its new facility in Salt Lake City today. The company’s President, Steve Keyser, says his goal is to see 10 percent of his workforce in alternative fuel vehicles by the year 2020. “I realize that the air…
November first marks the beginning of the wood burning season, and thus the winter air pollution season, in Utah.
The Utah Division of Air Quality wants to help other organizations clean up their vehicles.
Wednesday, the Utah Water Quality Board will hear testimony on the Utah Water Division’s recommendation to allow the U.S. Oil Sands PR Springs Tar Sands project to move forward without a water pollution discharge permit. Utah Tar Sands Resistance Spokesperson Lionel Trepanier says the project could have grave environmental effects and endanger groundwater. “This flies…
(EXPLORE Utah Science) Millions of acres of evergreen forests across the West are suffering an epidemic of bark beetle infestations.
After 20 years on the job, one federal employee decided to draw more attention to the way the Bureau of Land Management is run while on his way out. Stan Olmstead retired from the BLM’s Vernal (VER-null) Field Office last month, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, before he did, he sent a memo out to his colleagues across the state, hoping to draw attention to what he calls a broken agency.
Utah was hit hard by wildfires this year, leaving hundreds of thousands of acres of vegetation destroyed. Wednesday, the Division of Wildlife Resources began planting wildland seeds in an effort to restore that vegetation. Alison Whittaker, Project Leader for the Great Basin Research Center, says this fire season was four times worse than usual, adding…
Come December, Jim Karpowitz will walk away from the only job he’s known for more than three decades – managing Utah’s wildlife.
With the world’s population now exceeding seven billion people, undeveloped land is quickly diminishing. Today, hundreds of people from across the country are in Salt Lake City hoping to reverse that trend by taking part in the Land Trust Alliance Rally at the Salt Palace. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on what they hope to accomplish.
It’s been almost a year since the Salt Lake City Council passed an ordinance banning vehicle idling for more than two minutes. After some revisions were made to the plan during the last legislative session, the city’s parking enforcement personnel began implementing the new rule in the spring. But as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, only a half-dozen warnings have been given out since then.
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