tar sands

Work stopped in eastern Utah last winter at the first tar sands mine in the United States. But now investors and improving oil prices have cleared the way…

Money issues have prompted a temporary slowdown of work in eastern Utah on the first tar sands mine in the U.S.Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands announced…

Main Canyon is an oasis in the high-mountain desert of the Tavaputs Plateau even during midsummer during a drought.Burt and Christine DeLambert have…

Four protestors have been arrested after disrupting construction of a tar sands mine in the Book Cliffs of Utah Monday. Environmental activists say…

State mining regulators heard arguments for and against the nation’s first oil sands mine, which is being built in eastern Utah.Dozens of critics turned…

New plans to mine oil sands in Utah are under review. But environmentalists say state regulators need to take a harder look at the details.The…

Two wildflowers that grow only where there are oil shale or tar sands will stay off the federal endangered species list for now. Instead, an agreement has…

The federal government is planning to protect two kinds of wildflower that grow only in eastern Utah and western Colorado – and only in areas where there…

Seven environmental groups are telling the Bureau of Land Management they plan to sue the agency over its leasing plan for oil shale and tar sands. They…

US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced a plan to encourage oil shale and tar sands development in the Mountain West. The Bureau of Land…

Governor Herbert sends a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the “Tar Sands Monster” pays a visit to downtown Salt Lake City, and…

About two dozen demonstrators gathered outside the Bureau of Land Management Office at the Gateway to offer their own "People's Environmental Impact…