Topic: Environmental Politics
EnviroNews: Bison make spring greener
Yellowstone’s migrating bison herds make grass grow more quickly and last longer according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Typicall …
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EnviroNews: Keep your recycling out of the dump
China’s “National Sword” policy, enacted in January 2018, has changed the landscape for recycling in Utah. In the past, the contents of curbside blue bins were loaded into shipping …
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EnviroNews: RIP Legacy Parkway Agreement
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has announced that on January 1, 2020 the 14-mile Legacy Parkway will raise speed limits to 65 miles per hour and allow large semi-truc …
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EnviroNews: Support America’s Redrock Wilderness Act
Ask your out-of-state friends and family to call their U.S. representatives and senators to co-sponsor America’s Redrock Wilderness Act (ARWA)! ARWA will be re-introduced in Congre …
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EnviroNews: Off-road threat to San Rafael Desert
Public comments are needed on a catastrophically bad Travel Plan for the San Rafael Desert that would turn a remote desert landscape into a motorized free-for-all. Under the BLM pr …
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EnviroNews: Proposed highway endangers desert tortoises
Can a desert tortoise preserve still preserve habitat if it has a four-lane highway running through it? Through January 6, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wil …
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EnviroNews: Envision Utah Common Good Awards
Envision Utah has announced the 2019 Common Good Awards for people and organizations doing amazing things to make Utah a better place now and in the future. The winners are (drumro …
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EnviroNews: Just say no to Little Colorado River Dam
A coalition of environmental groups has filed a Motion to Intervene in order to stop a private company from damming the Little Colorado River on Navajo lands in Arizona (The Navajo …
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EnviroNews: Navajo generating station closes
The largest coal-fired power plant in the Four Corners region has been shuttered due to the low price of natural gas. The Navajo Generating Station burned 24,000 tons of coal per d …
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EnviroNews: Utah oil and gas watchdogs foster ‘culture of noncompliance’
For decades Utah’s oil and gas industry has gone largely unregulated due to a “culture of noncompliance” in the Oil and Gas Program. The program, under the Division of Oil, Gas an …
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EnviroNews: BLM leases suspended for ignoring climate
The Utah Bureau of Land Management has suspended 130 oil and gas leases in Utah in order to analyze impacts from greenhouse gas emissions. The improper leases were challenged by tw …
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EnviroNews: Hearing addresses violence against land managers
In October the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a hearing to address growing threats of violence against public land managers. A Government Accou …
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EnviroNews: Republicans plotting public land grab
In October Utah Senator Mike Lee (R) invited a group of Republican senators and other politicians to Moab, Utah trying to persuade them to hand over federal public lands to the Sta …
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EnviroNews: More threats to national parks
Thanks to public outcry the National Park Service quickly withdrew an order issued last September that would have allowed ATVs into Utah national parks. But that doesn’t mean the T …
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EnviroNews: Wildlands tourism booming in Utah
Utah’s national parks, state parks and ski resorts experienced record visitation in 2018. A new report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute says that visitors spent $1.2 billio …
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