Utah Democrats will be electing new party leadership at their party’s organizing convention on Saturday, May 31, at Ogden High School, and will hear from one of the nation’s boldest ...

Supporters of WOTUS say it is meant to protect the benefits of water for all people of the United States to enjoy, not just ...

Microplastics are an urgent issue in the Great Lakes. Learn what’s causing them, how it affects health and what you can do.

The state is trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said, but it is "exceedingly ...

Leia Larsen is a reporter at. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of ...

The heat will hold in Minnesota on Tuesday as elevated fire danger and poor air quality continue. Excluding the Tw ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster ... examined the intersection of politics and environmental issues as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.

To help shape what that will look like, UIPA brought in Joel Ferry, director of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources and an influential leader on Great Salt Lake issues, as a non-voting board ...

The level of the Great Salt Lake in Utah reached a record low in 2022 ... The reduction in the lake's volume poses ecological and economic issues for Utah—but also public-health concerns ...

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research from ...

The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake ... “This does say it’s a concern and it’s definitely worth continuing to look at,” Kelly added. Utah’s Division of Air Quality points out the ...