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Ask Congress to Reauthorize The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

Better Utah Staff, Blog, Environment, Healthcare /

Last week, Alliance for a Better Utah joined 32 other Utah and national organizations to call on Utah’s Congressional delegation to expand RECA and continue providing compensation to downwinders impacted by our country’s historical nuclear weapons testing.  RECA expired earlier this year in June and although the U.S. Senate passed an expanded RECA bill in […]

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Press Release: A Coalition of businesses and nonprofits request redacted cost estimate for Lake Powell Pipeline

Accountability/Transparency, Environment, Issues /

Salt Lake City, UT – As Utah legislative leaders convene this week to reduce funding for essential needs like education and social services because of the pandemic, the question on many people’s minds is how much of this is being done to make way for the multi-billion dollar Lake Powell Pipeline. A group of nonprofits

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Into the National Forest: with great beauty comes great responsibility

Better Utah Interns, Blog, Environment, Issues, Public Lands /

It’s a high summer evening in July, and I’m sitting in a luscious grove at Aspen Acres, a development of cabins on the north-western edge of the Uintah-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Birdsong drops down from the branches. An earthy scent wafts by on a breeze, and the aspens’ coin-shaped leaves rasp softly, as though the trees

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The only personal choice that will save us

Better Utah Staff, Blog, Elections and Voting Rights, Environment, Issues /

If you’ve spent any time on the internet talking or reading about climate change, then you’re likely familiar with the tired comment, “well what are YOU doing about it?! What changes are you making in your life?” *sigh* Utahns value personal choice and personal control over our own futures. A core belief in the ability

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Have you checked out Better Utah’s new Progress Report?

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It can be tough to know if your legislators are doing a good job. State representatives tend to slide under the radar, and local elections just aren’t as sexy! We get it, but we also believe supporting good local candidates is the way to make your vote go the distance. Our 2019 Progress Report can

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