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Utah State University classroom building in Brigham City receives LEED Gold

2016-07-20 16:43:00| American School & University

50,000-square-foot facility is designed to be the anchor of the new Brigham City campus. read more

Time for Utah to let go of oil shale dreams

2016-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

High Country News: Ever since the 19th century, Westerners have been trying to extract oil from the vast oil shale deposits that lie trapped in rock under our public lands. Every attempt to do so has failed; in fact, so much money has been wasted that it has inspired the ironic tagline: "Oil shale, fuel of the future--always has been, always will be." But now, an Estonian energy giant is attempting to prove history wrong. It plans to construct a large oil shale mine and power plant in northeastern Utah, less than...

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Power weighs legal options EPA mandates pollution controls Utah coal plants

2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Salt Lake Tribune: The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that installing selective catalytic reduction at Rocky Mountain Powers Huntington coal-fired power plant in Emery County will reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide, one of the chemicals that contributes to the formation of haze. (Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that installing selective catalytic reduction at Rocky Mountain Powers Huntington coal-fired power plant in Emery County will reduce emissions...

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