(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah has a new EPA administrator as President Trump appoints Cyrus Western to lead EPA Region 8. The region covers Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and 28 Indigenous tribes. Western previously served as Majority Whip in the Wyoming State House, where he […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox is taking aim at a Utah company that has been blamed for a significant portion of the state’s air pollution. The governor asked the EPA to change the boundaries of an air pollution non-attainment area to include the section of Tooele County where […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking proposals from small business to clean up abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation and in northwestern New Mexico. About 140 people attended a workshop held this week in Window Rock to learn more about the $220 million […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Northern Utah’s air quality issues that flare up in the winter are back under the spotlight as a coalition of environmental groups is putting the Environmental Protection Agency on notice it will sue if it doesn’t hold Utah and Arizona accountable for missing deadlines to […]
DENVER (AP) — Three years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency triggered a massive mine spill that polluted rivers in three states, the federal government still hasn’t repaid the victims for the millions of dollars in economic damage they claimed. The EPA said this week it’s making progress on reviewing […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking a federal court in New Mexico to toss out a lawsuit over a mine waste spill in Colorado that polluted rivers in three states. The agency said in a motion this week that workers are already working on the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state regulators are announcing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a written warning about ozone pollution levels that exceed federal thresholds in seven counties. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality said Tuesday in a news release that the EPA has given the […]
