Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Gregg Galecki represents the Utah Water Quality Board on the state panel that decides which projects get funded through a pool of federal mineral royalties known as the Permanent Community Impact Fund. Now Galecki’s employment as an environmental engineer with a Carbon County coal mine has sparked new concerns about
Source: Deseret News A Utah group that advocates for greater government accountability is rasing concerns that a coal company employee who sits on the state’s Community Impact Board was among those who voted in favor of a $53 million investment in a controversial Oakland, California, export terminal. The Alliance for a Better Utah is asking
Salt Lake City, UT — Alliance for a Better Utah sent a letter this afternoon to the Chairman of the Permanent Community Impact Fund Board (CIB) raising concerns over a potential conflict of interest on the Board. Mr. Gregg Galecki, a member of the CIB, appears to be a current employee of Bowie Resource Partners,
Source: Public News Service Utah environmentalists and government watchdogs are cheering a decision by the Oakland city council to ban coal shipments through its port facilities. The decision puts a roadblock in front of plans for Utah producers to ship coal through the California port to overseas markets. But despite losing the port and calls
Source: Deseret News Earlier this week, I was sitting in the Oakland City Council chambers with hundreds of other people — most from Oakland but a few from Utah — voicing opposition to using a proposed port for the transportation and shipment of coal. At the end of the meeting, the Oakland City Council passed
Source: Good 4 Utah Oakland puts the breaks on Utah’s plan to ship coal through the Bay Area city. Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously Monday to block the handling and storage of coal in Oakland. Citing concerns over air pollution and the health of nearby residents, hundreds spoke out against plans to build a new
Source: The Mercury News During a raucous four-hour meeting Monday night, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in the city. Councilmember Desley Brooks was absent from the meeting. Hundreds of people filled the council chambers, spilling into overflow rooms, and offered several hours of
Source: The Standard Several environmental groups are calling for a federal investigation into Utah’s plans to invest $53 million in a proposed expansion of a California port to export coal to Asia. The funds from federal mineral royalties are intended for local public works projects, but would instead be loaned to four counties for the proposed Oakland Bulk and
Source: New West According to Bloomberg, Wyoming-based District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl has blocked a rule proposed by the Interior Department and the Obama administration to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands. We previously reported that Skavdahl had put a temporary hold on the new fracking rules, on the grounds that the Bureau of Land Management
Source: INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Environmental groups and other organizations sent a letter Monday asking U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other high-ranking federal officials to investigate a $53 million investment in a proposed coal shipping terminal in Oakland, California. The letter was written on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Living
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