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Compared to 2022’s “year of water” and the urgency felt to save the drying Great Salt Lake, Utah lawmakers spent time this year on water law refinements.
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The proposed policies from Sen. Nate Blouin and Rep. Joel Briscoe are backed by water conservation advocacy groups.
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As lawmakers get back to work, the legislature will again try to balance needs, wants and big ideas with two powerful forces: the budget and a desire for tax cuts.
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Poet Elizabeth Cruz urges Utah to get involved and turn things around for the Great Salt Lake. “We’re only experts to destroy, to assassinate,” she sadly observes.
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La poeta Elizabeth Cruz insta a Utah a que se involucre para cambiar el futuro del Gran Lago Salado. “Somos solo expertos para destruir, para asesinar”, observa tristemente.
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The demise of the Great Salt Lake and its potential impact on an 11-year-old girl is laid bare in an emotional short story written by playwright Elaine Jarvik.
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The legislation allocates $25 million for the United States Geological Survey to monitor the Great Salt Lake, California’s Mono Lake, Oregon’s Lake Albert and other saline lakes.
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A stone’s throw from modern day Wendover, Danger Cave is a time capsule into the lives of some of the earliest people to call Utah home.
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In 2018, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation purchased land in Southeastern Idaho. For decades it was used for farming. But that hid a much darker history. Now, there are efforts to restore the land.
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The $28.4 billion proposed budget tackles some of the biggest issues facing Utah.
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In a wide-ranging climate discussion, the Utah senator said he believes the private sector should lead the way in clean energy technology.
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The Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Act has passed the Senate. Now the vote is in the House with a busy calendar and the approaching end of the 117th Congress.