Feel like that midweek pick-me-up couldn’t come sooner? Well we’re here – Wednesday Addams (otherwise known as Madison). With these cartoons it’s hard to say how much of a pick-me-up they really are, but I sincerely hope you they bring some amusement, at the very least. (…and hopefully they make you think!) *** This week,
The polluting power of coal has been widely stated: burning coal produces smog, causes acid rain, contributes to climate change and contaminates water supplies. But these common facts overlook the impact of another major harmful coal byproduct: coal ash. By nature, all coal contains a certain amount of radioactive and toxic materials. As coal is
The Better UTAH Beat airs Tuesday afternoons on KVNU’s For the People. Podcasts of previous episodes are available here. —– The astronomer Carl Sagan, perhaps more than any other modern thinker, always encouraged us to take the long view. And quite literally, too. His public television series Cosmos, recently given new life on FOX and now hosted
The Better UTAH Beat airs Tuesday afternoons on KVNU’s For the People. Podcasts of previous episodes are available here. —– Temperatures have been unseasonably warm in Utah these last few weeks. If you recall, last year Northern Utah experienced a string of bitterly cold, polluted days during the month of January. The air is still heavily polluted,
I am a summer baby, through and through. July is my favorite month. Comfortably cushioned between June and August, the temperature is reliably warm, the sky is consistently blue, and the days are perfectly long. Contrast that with my least favorite month, January–one giant, holiday hangover. The temperature is dreadfully cold, the sky is unfortunately
In case you missed it, Governor Herbert declared May as Clean Air Month. The Governor really shot for the moon with his list of suggestions for improvement by including such large-scale offenders as old gas cans, older gas lawn mowers, and toxic house paint. Really, it was earth shattering, I breathed deeper and cleaner air
New numbers released last week by the Department of Environmental Quality don’t bode well for cleaning up our winter inversions. According to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah County–which repeatedly found itself with the country’s worst air this past winter–needs to cut its wintertime pollution by an additional 20 percent to meet even
Over 50 million dollars were spent fighting wildfires in Utah just last year while thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. And the number of wildfires is expected to increase. It is fitting, then, that the first bill in two years that dares to openly discuss climate change would focus on wildfire suppression efforts. HB
The following is the transcript from this week’s Better UTAH Beat. It aired on February 5, 2013. ——- During the legislative session this year Utahns can expect to see upward of 1000 bills written and shepherded through various parts of the legislative process. Of those bills, some 400 will become law. With only 45 days
Climate change has been in the news a lot lately. World leaders met in Doha, Qatar last week to discuss global climate change and in Salt Lake City, local leaders have been working to address our own climate change concerns. Climate change is expected to dramatically affect the ski industry in Utah.
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