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Utah-based Legend Solar has ‘misrepresented’ itself and should lose its contractor’s license, state regulators say

By Emma Penrod | March 24, 2018, 5:26 p.m.

Dixie State University ends $10 million stadium-naming deal with Legend Solar amid company’s financial difficulties

By Emma Penrod | March 24, 2018, 12:40 a.m.

Utah regulators seek to revoke license of Utah-based Legend Solar as company shows signs of an ‘extreme cashflow problem’ and customers are left hanging

By Emma Penrod | March 22, 2018, 11:48 p.m.

Utah governor asks residents to pray for snow, but this winter is still among the five driest in state’s history — and that’s the good news

By Emma Penrod | March 14, 2018, 2:07 p.m.

How simmering conflicts over canyon land, the Mountain Accord and Facebook erupted into Utah’s latest water war

By Emma Penrod | March 13, 2018, 1:37 p.m.

Lawmakers make vehicle-emissions tests more common in Utah, but penalties for ‘rolling coal’ are unchanged

By Emma Penrod | March 9, 2018, 10:23 p.m.

Utah's ‘incredible’ rise in solar power may just be the start of a decadeslong surge, industry experts say

By Emma Penrod | March 2, 2018, 3:27 a.m.

University of Utah won’t keep applicants out if they are disciplined for marching against school shootings

By Sean P. Means | Emma Penrod | February 28, 2018, 11:14 p.m.

Worries about home values, reliable drinking water prompt lawmakers to order a study of changing the Utah Constitution

By Emma Penrod | February 27, 2018, 9:22 p.m.

Utah’s landfills are rarely inspected, so a new bill proposes a solution: Let the landfills inspect themselves

By Emma Penrod | February 23, 2018, 2:31 p.m.

After hearing that fears about pollution are overblown, Utah lawmakers OK plan to pare back watershed protections

By Emma Penrod | February 21, 2018, 11:20 p.m.

Some Utah lawmakers deny climate change, but OK a bill recognizing its impacts after hearing pleas from students

By Emma Penrod | February 15, 2018, 11:17 p.m.

Some Utah lawmakers are skeptical that pollution from vehicles is a problem, but give initial support to reducing emissions from trucks and trains

By Emma Penrod | February 15, 2018, 3:51 p.m.

Wary of saying humans are responsible, Utah lawmakers postpone vote on two climate-change resolutions

By Emma Penrod | February 15, 2018, 8:56 a.m.

Abysmally dry, warm conditions across Utah may be a glimpse of the state’s future, water experts say

By Emma Penrod | February 10, 2018, 4:07 a.m.

Rocky Mountain Power helping to restore Utah tax breaks on solar panels, but is the utility just looking out for itself?

By Emma Penrod | February 8, 2018, 3:13 p.m.

Lawmakers want to stop your car from polluting — and hire a few more air scientists

By Emma Penrod | February 7, 2018, 12:51 a.m.

The Arctic has inversions just like Utah, and they could be making climate change worse

By Emma Penrod | February 6, 2018, 3:04 p.m.

Utahns may lead on air quality awareness, but poll shows they lag on taking personal action

By Emma Penrod | February 5, 2018, 2:42 p.m.

There is no safe level of air pollution, Utah doctors declare during release of annual report at Capitol rally

By Emma Penrod | February 3, 2018, 11:00 p.m.

Utahns may be pouring even more water on their lawns and gardens than previously thought

By Emma Penrod | February 1, 2018, 9:45 p.m.

Utah spent $33 million on a pipeline application it never finished. The feds approved it anyway.

By Emma Penrod | January 30, 2018, 3:43 p.m.

Trump's tariffs are just a 'bump in the road' to Utah's fast-growing solar companies

By Emma Penrod | January 26, 2018, 3:00 p.m.

As snows melt elsewhere, Utah could have leg up on hosting future Winter Olympic Games — thanks to global warming

By Emma Penrod | January 17, 2018, 5:21 p.m.

Environmentalists worry Utah regulators let violations at radioactive waste site ‘fly under the radar’

By Emma Penrod | January 12, 2018, 1:28 a.m.