The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Utah and Oklahoma on Wednesday in a case that started over disagreements with the Clean Air Act, and evolved into a debate over where certain lawsuits could be heard. The high court issued a unanimous opinion in Oklahoma v. Environmental Protection Agency on ...
It’s that time of year when temperatures rise, spring rainstorms have scattered throughout northern Utah and many of us are trying to fire up whatever sprinklers we have as we reach summer. You’ve heard Utah is a desert, no doubt. Luckily for us, there’s a group of experts already ...
BILLINGS, Mont. — More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, reviving a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the ...
As Utah prepares for an overdue, big earthquake, University of Utah seismologists found that current seismic hazard models may be underestimating the intensity of shaking the Salt Lake Valley could experience in future earthquakes. That’s because sediments in some areas under the valley ...
U.S. Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced the Strategic Grazing to Reduce the Risk of Wildfire Act, bipartisan legislation to direct the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to collaborate with grazing allotment holders, States, ...
After a controversial provision allowing the sale of public lands in Utah and Nevada was stripped from a massive spending package, Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee hinted he may try to revive it in the Senate. Utah Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy initially proposed selling nearly 11,500 acres of ...
