Amanda Smith to Step Down as Utah DEQ Director

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — The Administration of Utah Governor Gary Herbert announced on April 23, 2015 that Amanda Smith, six-year veteran at the helm of Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), will be leaving the post. Appointed by Jon Huntsman, Jr., Smith has indicated…

Largest Air Pollution Rally in U.S. History Goes down on Utah’s Capitol Hill

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau via EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – People are dropping over dead in the streets along the Wasatch Front from Utah’s absolutely debilitating and deadly air-pollution crisis. If that sounds a little harsh, it isn’t, and as a matter of fact, it is…

Music and Levity Make Utah Environmental Conundrum More Bearable at America’s Largest-Ever Air Pollution Protest

(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – The Smog Lake City Singers, musician Tom Bennett, and a song written by local fourth graders provided some levity and musical interludes as part of the Clean Air, No Excuses Rally on Jan. 25, 2014, at the Utah State Capitol. The…

Utah Air Quality Board Passes Insufficient Plan to Meet EPA Standards By 2019

(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – The Air Quality Board of the Department of Air Quality (DAQ) passed its plan to meet EPA air quality standards for those areas out of compliance with a vote of 8 for, and 1 against, on Jan. 8, 2014. The lone…

Matt Pacenza of Heal Utah Exposes the Herbert Administration’s Compliance with the ‘Ridiculous’ Green River Reactor Plan That Would Give Utah Its First Nuclear Reactors

(EnviroNews Utah) – At the Rally to Restore Sanity to Government held at the Utah State Capitol, Matt Pacenza, Policy Director at HEAL Utah spoke loudly to expose corruption in Utah politics. The crowd was often heated as he delivered an expose’ of lies and deciet surrounding ultra…

Matt Pacenza of HEAL Utah Speaks on Dangerous New Bill That Dismantles Utah’s Citizen-Based Environmental Review Boards

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City — It appears that the input from residents and expert opinion from the community is no longer welcome in the State of Utah. That was the message sent by Senate Bill 21 from the 2012 legislative session which dismantles and eliminates citizen-based…

Matt Pacenza of HEAL Utah Denounces Utah’s New Policy Designating the State as the Nations Primary Dumping Ground for Hotter Blended Nuclear Waste

(EnviroNews Utah) – At the Rally to Restore Sanity to Government, Matt Pacenza, Policy Director at HEAL Utah denounced the Herbert Administration’s new policy on nuclear waste before a crowd of outraged protestors. The decision has taken much heat from citizens and activists alike as it overturns Utah’s…