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Showing posts with label Utah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utah. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2026

Too few childcare workers and the extreme cost of childcare are hardest on rural families. Utah is an example.

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The childcare shortage is more dire in rural areas. (Photo by Kracken, Unsplash) Across the U.S., roughly 51% of American families live in a...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Going against the current, Utah works to change an old western water rights rule to encourage conservation

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Utah Department of Agriculture and Food photo Many western states apply the "use it or lose it" rule to water rights, which penali...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Mormon Church donates reservoir of church-owned water; it hopes many others will follow suit

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Farmington Bay, a critical habitat for wildlife, feeds into the Great Salt Lake. ( Photo by James Roh, The Washington Post) In an unusual mo...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Newspaper series focuses on water crisis looming for 30 million dependent on the Colorado River

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The West is fast running out of water. Its lifeblood, the Colorado River, reports Utah's Deseret News , "is being hemorrhaged b...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Arizona governor vetoes bill to take over federal land, calls it unconstitutional and costly

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed legislation Monday that would have allowed the try to state to take public land from the federal government,...
Friday, February 04, 2011

Utah legislature reaches out to rural counties

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The Utah Legislature is observing its first "Rural Legislative Day." Amy Joi O'Donoghue, of the Deseret News in Salt Lake Cit...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Interior Dept. withdraws Bush-era oil-shale leases

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has withdrawn oil shale leases in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, saying his department "would first study t...
Friday, January 09, 2009

2008 saw record low number of miners killed

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"The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell to 51 in 2008, the fewest number of deaths since officials began keep...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

GAO says mines lack communication gear and air supplies required by 2006 law, blames agency

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In June 2006, Congress passed a law to force mines to install more safety equipment. The legislation was prompted by the deaths of 12 miner...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Art lovers and conservationists come together to protest oil drilling near Great Salt Lake artwork

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On the northern shore of the Great Salt Lake is a piece of art not many people have seen, but those who have are fighting to preserve it, re...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Senate panel report blames company, mine-safety agency for Crandall Canyon mine disaster

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A congressional committee investigating last year's cave-ins at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine issued its report yesterday, and blame t...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Smithfield Foods' effort to turn manure into biofuel at Utah plant fails after three years

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After three years, Smithfield Foods has sold its biofuel plant, because the main ingredient — pig manure — did not have enough nutrients t...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Labor Department says its coal-mine safety unit failed to fully inspect one-seventh of mines

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The U.S. Mine Safety Administration failed to conduct required inspections at more than one in seven coal mines last year, according to a La...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Rural Utah eyed for new nuclear power plants

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Last week, The Rural Blog reported an increase in the number of proposals for new nuclear power plants . Now it seems that list might be gro...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Judge decides to keep Crandall Canyon mine investigations closed to news media

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The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration can continue to bar the media from its special meetings related to the Crandall Canyon mine c...