Leia Larsen
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2 big data centers are coming to Utah’s coal country. How they’ll be powered has residents ‘up in arms.’ (opens the original)
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Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Two big data centers are coming to a rural Utah community familiar with the boom-and-bust cycles of industry. But despite nationwide and bipartisan backlash over the water and land resources they often consume, Carbon County residents say they are more concerned about how the data centers will be powered. One complex, called “Jurassic Spark,”
Lands that Trump cut from Bears Ears were opened to mining claims last week. Prospectors filed 16 that same day. (opens the original)
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Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. It didn’t take long for the first mining claims to crop up on the lands that were previously protected in Bears Ears National Monument. Prospectors placed 16 claims at Bears Ears the same day the lands opened to new mining claims, 60 days after President Donald Trump shrank the monument by about 90% in July. All of the claims appear to have be
Trump officials eye expanded oil, gas leasing beneath a Utah wildlife refuge. (opens the original)
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Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Trump administration is considering opening a vast swath of a wildlife refuge near Vernal to expanded oil and gas leasing. Under the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s proposal announced last week, 5,200 acres of the 12,000-acre Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, which includes about 16 miles of the Green River, could be opened to oil and gas l
Lake Powell’s falling water levels could sink Utah’s ferry service for good (opens the original)
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Note to readers: This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A state-run ferry on Lake Powell will likely become a casualty of historically low water levels at the nation’s second-largest reservoir. The Charles Hall Ferry has shuttled motorists and tourists between Bullfrog and Halls Crossing since the Utah Department of Transportation commissioned it in 2001. But the ferry has faced a bumpy ride in rece
A mining CEO bought 74,000 shares days before Trump shrank Bears Ears. (opens the original)
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Note to readers: This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation into Energy Fuels after the company’s CEO and chair bought thousands of shares of stock just days before President Donald Trump downsized the neighboring Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. The Denver-based company operates White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium process
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