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Salt Lake Tribune

Re "Ratepayers would help Utah go nuclear" (Tribune, Feb. 19):

Would you like to see your electric bill go up? Then urge your state legislators to pass SB199.

Connecting the dots: Utah considers copying Florida's blunder ...

Salt Lake Tribune

Our editorial about a bad bill that has been proposed in Utah:

Nuclear speculation: SB199 would shift risk to ratepayers — Salt Lake Tribune Editorial

In our opinion: Tackling bad air

Deseret News

Bad winter air has been a part of life in the northern Utah valleys for a long time. For instance, in the winter of 1876-77, 23 days of dense fog were recorded. The significance of that, of course, is that not a single automobile was responsible for the bad air.

Nuclear speculation

Salt Lake Tribune

SB199 would shift risk to ratepayers

When the ink isn’t even dry before the sponsoring lawmaker starts distancing himself from a bill he just introduced, the possibility of that bill becoming law seems remote indeed.

Bad air hurts Utah

Salt Lake Tribune

As a business person and property owner with operations and holdings in the Salt Lake region, I am concerned with the trend away from air-quality controls.

I have worked with dozens of Utah’s most recognizable businesses that believe the collective negative impact of largely unregulated airborne emissions on our air quality, viewsheds, watersheds and snowpack threatens broad aspects of Utah’s economy and its property values.