Utah's powerful Speaker of the House is floating a new idea to help deal with dust blowing into communities from a shrinking ...

Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...

Utah’s phenomenal, record-breaking winter has already given the Great Salt Lake a boost ... one good year isn’t going to solve our problems.” An impressive 1.4 million acre-feet have ...

And the Great Salt Lake isn’t unique ... among other health issues. Owens Lake has been among the largest sources of dust pollution in the nation. The City of Los Angeles has spent more than ...

Still, scientists and resource managers are clear — sealing off the north arm isn’t a permanent fix for the Great Salt Lake’s many problems. “To me, the goal is to return the lake to its ...

The proclamation blocks anyone from diverting un-allocated water, ensuring more water can get into the Great Salt Lake. It does continue to allow existing water rights to be used. "Extreme drought ...

In Utah, the Great Salt Lake is more than seven times larger than ... for those that have lung issues, uninhabitable," Bitton says. Researchers have found higher rates of asthma and cardiovascular ...

The Great Salt Lake's southern arm continues to flutter ... He covers Salt Lake City, statewide transportation issues, outdoors, the environment and weather. He is a graduate of Southern Utah ...

To help shape what that will look like, UIPA brought in Joel Ferry, director of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources and an influential leader on Great Salt Lake issues, as a non-voting board ...

The level of the Great Salt Lake in Utah reached a record low in 2022 ... The reduction in the lake's volume poses ecological and economic issues for Utah—but also public-health concerns ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster ... examined the intersection of politics and environmental issues as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.