Utah Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in Utah courtesy of Environmental Health News.
Inventory: Power plants biggest source of greenhouse gases.
A new national greenhouse gas inventory shows that Utah’s power plants, like those nationwide, are the biggest contributors to the pollution blamed for climate change.
Apa Sherpa back in the Himalayas — to spread climate change awareness.
Apa Sherpa will again team up with Dawa Steven Sherpa in a major expedition to promote awareness of global climate change, but they will do it while trekking more than 1,050 miles in an estimated 120 days on the Great Himalaya Trail.
Absence of Arctic ice affecting weather, global warming.
Recent dramatic changes in the Arctic will have a significant effect on our weather in Utah. That's the conclusion of a top scientist studying Arctic sea ice.
Salt Lake City applauded for its extreme-weather plans.
Salt Lake City, like most city and county governments nationwide, has started making plans for managing natural disasters related to climate change. But Utah’s largest city received a shoutout Monday for its leading work in finding ways to adapt.
BYU professor's critique of climate change model contributes to journal editor's resignation.
A BYU professor's criticism, along with other critiques of a climate change model published in a scientific journal, sparked a national controversy that led the journal's editor-in-chief to resign. The paper published in the journal "Remote Sensing" initially led some mainstream media outlets to trumpet the model as proof climate change is overstated.
Another report slams Utah oil-shale rush.
For the second time in a year, a major environmental organization has published a report ripping the prospect of Utah and Colorado oil-shale development as an environmental and economic disaster.
Studies: Global warming, climate science far from settled.
In the face of repeated assertions that the science on global warming is "settled," ongoing studies and developments in the area leave some insisting that claim remains true, while others say the science is anything but.
Not all environmentalists like DeChristopher's brand of activism.
A federal judge on Tuesday is slated to determine the fate of Timothy DeChristopher, a young environmental idealist who has carved out a faithful throng of followers with his criminal actions and impassioned speeches.
State rebuffs greenhouse gas petition.
Eight state agencies have rejected efforts by a group of Utah teens and environmental advocates to force action on climate change — including a rebuff Wednesday by the Utah Air Quality Board.
Utah Air Quality board rejects group's call for reduction of greenhouse gas.
The Utah Air Quality Board rejected a citizens petition asking for the adoption of a greenhouse gas reduction plan that sought to curtail emissions by 6 percent each year.