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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.,...

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on May 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM

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 ...

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on May 22, 2013 at 09:20 AM
Researchers nuke up new sol...

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.

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on May 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM

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...

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on May 06, 2013 at 01:22 PM
Family of Utah soccer refer...

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.

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on May 05, 2013 at 07:51 PM
Police: Utah soccer referee...

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.

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on May 05, 2013 at 12:20 AM

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

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on May 02, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Massive landslide rocks Uta...

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."

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on Apr 23, 2013 at 06:21 AM
Salt Lake City Could See Bi...

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...

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on Apr 17, 2013 at 12:50 PM

'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...

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on Apr 07, 2013 at 02:20 AM