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Current NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Air Quality Board set to endorse new EPA standards for car industry
Jun 10, 2013
KCPW
The Utah Air Quality Board voted on Wednesday in favor of sending a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of the agency’s proposed “Tier 3” standards for cars. KCPW reporter Roger McDonough reports. Listen to the story here. Group wants Stericycle shut down in light of air quality violation
Jun 10, 2013
Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's leading air quality organization made up of doctors wants state regulators to yank the permit of a North Salt Lake medical waste incinerator company because of "egregious" violations reported in late May. Dr. Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, said the state Division of Air Quality should hold a public hearing when it comes to deciding the potential penalty levied against Stericycle. Free market green energy?
Jun 10, 2013
The Park Record
Utah is powered by coal. In fact, in June of 2012, Utah received over 75 percent of its net generation of electricity from coal, according to a Utah Geological Survey study. However, a poll conducted in 2007 by KSL and the Deseret Morning News found that 92 percent of Utahns support "government incentives and investment" in renewable energy. Utah produced only around 3 percent of its energy from renewables in 2011. Utah air quality regulators target hair spray
Jun 10, 2013
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s air quality regulators have taken a final step to ban the sale of aerosols like hair spray with high concentrations of hydrocarbons, raising the hackles of beauty salon owners. The limits on consumer goods are part of a plan to curb smog that can choke the greater Salt Lake City area. Utah is under pressure from the federal government to reduce emissions. Nuclear plant closures show industry’s struggles
Jun 10, 2013
Salt Lake Tribune
Los Angeles • The decision to close California’s San Onofre nuclear plant is the latest setback for an industry that seemed poised for growth not long ago. In Wisconsin, a utility shuttered its plant last month after it couldn’t find a buyer. In Florida — and now California — utilities decided it was cheaper to close plants rather than spend big money fixing them and risk the uncertainty of safety reviews. |
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