Topic: Politics
Mike Noel: Conflicted
The Utah Rivers Council has filed an ethics complaint against Representative Mike Noel (R-Kanab 73) regarding apparent conflicts of interest, unsurprisingly connected to real estat …
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Environmental Roundup for the Utah State Legislature
During the 2018 General Session the Utah Legislature passed good and bad environmental bills, and one very, very ugly bill. Good: • HB 27 Environmental assurance for underground st …
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Anote’s Ark
Wanted: land to relocate the entire nation of Kiribati, which is slowly being submerged as the polar ice caps melt; CATALYST speaks with President Anote Tong. Imagine if you were b …
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Legislative Watch: Your Voice Counts
No squeak, no oil. Call today. It’s February, and the 2018 Legislative Session is in full swing. Here are a few bills we at HEAL Utah are working to support. These are bills we bel …
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Making Utah’s Electoral Districts Whole Again
Better Boundaries is the answer. It took over an hour for the crowd of 2,000 to get into the West High auditorium for Representative Chris Stewart’s first town meeting after last N …
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What to know about Trump’s December visit to Utah
Trump expected to visit and shrink two national treasures Brace yourselves. President Trump has said he will come to Utah in early December to announce downsizing of two National M …
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Death to the Death Penalty
It’s time to kill the death penalty. A Libertarian organization with 900 chapters in universities across the states called The Young Americans for Liberty, hosted a panel discussio …
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‘No Promo Homo’ Law Abolished in Utah
SB 196, AKA, “No Promo Homo” Law was repealed after Equality Utah filed a lawsuit against the State Board of Education. This law prohibited the discussion of homosexuality in …
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Trump’s EPA: dirty coal power, dirty air
In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Regional Haze Ruling that required Rocky Mountain Power to install pollution controls on coal-fired power plants at Hunte …
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Water conservation strategies from the Utah Rivers Council
Utah Rivers Council (URC) has initiated a new water conservation campaign for Utah called 40 by 30—the goal is to reduce daily water consumption per person 40% by 2030. Water conse …
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Utah proposal to decimate Bears Ears
In September the State of Utah submitted its own proposal asking the U.S. Department of the Interior to literally decimate Bears Ears National Monument, reducing it to a tenth of i …
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Leaked Zinke memo snubs public input on Monuments
Last month The Washington Post obtained a leaked memo from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that recommends drastically reducing the size of both Bears Ears National Monument and Gran …
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Utah's growing population is crowding canyon drives, the Utah Dept. of Transportation said on a busy day over 6,000 people travel through Little Cottonwood Canyon. #Environews
Environews: Population Growth, Traffic and Roads | Catalyst Magazine
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Utah’s population keeps growing, and traffic keeps getting more congested. Nobody wants to sit in a traffic jam, but counterintuitively, making driving easier causes a phenomenon called “induced traffic” that ultimately makes traffic worse. The nearby Wasatch Mountains are reaching a crisis po...