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Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. to pay penalty for chemical reporting violations at Aragonite, Utah facility (UT)
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Industrial waste incinerator resolves failure to report chemicals to Toxic Release Inventory (Denver, CO. – May 30, 2013) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)today announced an agreement with Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. (Clean Harbors) based in Norwell, Mass.,...
EPA places Salt Lake City groundwater plume on National Priority List (UT)
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Comprehensive investigation and cleanup planned for contamination associated with former Dept. of Veterans Affairs dry cleaning operation(Denver, Colo. – May 22, 2013) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that the 700 South 1600 East PCE Plume site in Salt Lake City, Utah, was ...
Researchers nuke up new solar cell material in microwave that used to make lunch
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Scientists up-cycle the microwave that used to make lunch to develop a cheap method using more abundant and less toxic materials to make nanocrystal semiconductors.
60,000 Bees Find Home In Utah Cabin
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SALT LAKE CITY -- It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed – a dozen feet long, packed inside...
Family of Utah soccer referee who died holds vigil
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The family of a Utah soccer referee who died after being punched by a teenager player called on soccer players worldwide to respect referees to prevent the same thing happening to somebody else.
Police: Utah soccer referee punched by player dies
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A Utah soccer referee who slipped into a coma after being punched by a teenage player during a game a week ago died Saturday night, police said.
Utah’s Sarah House Project Transforms Shipping Containers into Affordable Homes
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White’s vision was to create small communities of low-income housing, recycled from shipping containers. The shipping container homes would allow for impoverished or in-transition families to enjoy the independence of having in their own home and yard, instead
Massive landslide rocks Utah copper mine
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Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world's largest open-pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that "sometimes it's still the earth itself that shakes the world."
Salt Lake City Could See Bigger Earthquakes
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From Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer: Two faults bounding Utah's biggest city may combine to produce especially powerful earthquakes, geologists will report in Salt Lake...
'We've Never Had A Stress Factor Like This'
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man is trying to use his recognition as this year's national beekeeper of the year to focus attention on...
