Voices: Great Salt Lake is testing a new Republican approach to conservation

Great Salt Lake’s decline is a public health problem, an ecological problem, an economic problem and a water management problem. It can’t be dismissed as a coastal preoccupation or a symbolic climate cause.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin tours the Great Salt Lake at Farmington Bay on Saturday, May 23, 2026.

Voices: Great Salt Lake is testing a new Republican approach to conservation

Great Salt Lake’s decline is a public health problem, an ecological problem, an economic problem and a water management problem. It can’t be dismissed as a coastal preoccupation or a symbolic climate cause.

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