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energy policy NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Russian wildfires raise Chernobyl radiation fears
Aug 11, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
MOSCOW • Russian emergency workers have increased forest patrols in a western region previously contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, trying to prevent wildfires from spreading harmful radiation, officials said Wednesday. Insiders detail state's issue with energy study
Jul 05, 2010
KSL
SALT LAKE CITY -- A dispute over the value of a human life was a major factor that helped derail a controversial study on Utah power plants. Utah officials spent $200,000 in federal and state funds to have the study done. But when it was finished a few months ago, they sidetracked it and refused to vouch for it -- after it ran into a wall of opposition from industry. The study blames Utah power plants for 202 premature deaths each year and for health and water costs up to $2 billion annually. Utah activist urges use of alternative energy
Dec 17, 2009
Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — It takes courage for a staunch environmentalist to stand before a group of electricity producers and essentially tell them to steer away from traditional energy sources. But that's exactly what Chris Thomas, policy director for the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah, did on Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems. Thomas urged UAMPS members to use alternative energy sources, including wind and compressed air energy storage. Nuclear power water rights protests triggers public hearing
Oct 28, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune
State water officials have decided to schedule a public hearing on a proposal that would transfer water rights amounting to billions of gallons from Kane and San Juan counties to a company that wants to build a nuclear power plant at Green River. They're going to get an earful. |
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