Uintah Basin

The same snow that’s helped wash away smog episodes along the Wasatch Front this winter has created a kind of pollution factory in the Uinta Basin.…

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Scott Pruitt may have resigned but the controversies continue. A recently disclosed collection of emails between the…

The Utah Division of Air Quality is interviewing for a new staff position — a compliance officer based in the Uintah Basin.The basin contains thousands of…

The Uintah Basin Energy Summit takes place this week, and the controversy’s started even before the program begins. That’s because Wednesday’s keynote…

Tesoro has pressed the pause button on plans to build a petroleum pipeline halfway across northern Utah.The San Antonio-based petroleum company informed…

Utah Department of Health officials released a study this week that shows increased rates of stillbirths in the Uintah Basin. But some local physicians…

Regulators are relying on a growing body of scientific information to craft better pollution controls for the energy industry. They’re drawing on some of…

Utah’s winter pollution season officially gets underway this weekend, and thanks to $1 million from the Legislature, new research is focusing on what…

A complex court case involving winter ozone pollution in Utah’s Uintah Basin came before an appeals court in Washington DC Tuesday morning. The central…

The Utah Division of Air Quality has just released the third in a series of studies on the winter ozone problem in the Uintah Basin.One goal of these…

Last week, the Bill Barrett Corporation sold its natural gas properties in the West Tavaputs Plateau of eastern Utah for more than 300-million dollars.…

After a year of studying winter ozone air pollution in Utah’s Uintah Basin, a team of scientists has determined that oil and gas wells are causing most of…