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State officials outline how the ‘big, beautiful’ law could impact energy, environmental agencies
It’s been almost two months since congressional Republicans passed their budget bill, nicknamed the “big, beautiful bill,” which had sweeping impacts on grants and funding for state programs. Now, Utah officials are starting to see those impacts. On Wednesday, officials from Utah’s departments of environmental quality, oil gas and mining, agriculture and food, and energy development spoke to lawmakers during a Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment interim committee about the negative and positive impacts on their state agencies. Among the impacts are the elimination of ...