Utah Climate Change & Global Warming News

A German police officer uses a Geiger counter to measure the radiation of a Castor container on a transport train, during a stop in Neunkirchen near Saarbruecken. Reuters/Alex Domanski   Recently, writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams alerted The …

Stepping onto the stage of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Colo., his biceps bulging after chopping vegetables six hours a day for 21 months while in prison, Tim DeChristopher got a standing ovation for an act of insurrection. DeChristopher became …

Amid all the gloom and doom of late, there really are some pockets of good news, folks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the teenage birthrate has plummeted and that nearly every state reports lower births to unwed teens. After …

Amid all the gloom and doom of late, there really are some pockets of good news, folks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the teenage birth rate has plummeted and that nearly every state is reporting lower births to unwed teens. …

Amid all the gloom and doom of late, there really are some pockets of good news, folks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the teenage birthrate has plummeted and that nearly every state is reporting lower births to unwed teens. After …

Stepping onto the stage of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, his biceps bulging after chopping vegetables six hours a day for 21 months while in prison, Tim DeChristopher got a standing ovation for an act of insurrection. DeChristopher became the …

Stepping onto the stage of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, his biceps bulging after chopping vegetables six hours a day for 21 months while in prison, Tim DeChristopher got a standing ovation for an act of insurrection. DeChristopher became the …

COMING WEDNESDAY: Lawmakers will detail some of the battle lines on energy tax policy at a wide-ranging conference on Wednesday. The conference, hosted by BakerHostetler, will touch on issues including energy and health care tax policy, the budget and …

A German police officer uses a Geiger counter to measure the radiation of a Castor container on a transport train, during a stop in Neunkirchen near Saarbruecken. Reuters/Alex Domanski   Recently, acclaimed writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams …

Climate Change Road Trip Launched to Investigate Energy Extraction As the price of energy rises, so do the stakes. To document the country’s dependency on fossil fuels and extraction methods that contribute to global warming, a three-month cross-country …

On May 16, the Obama administration approved a model bill for disclosing the chemical fluids used in fracking on public lands. Aside from being written by ExxonMobil (per "The New York Times"), the bill promotes the illusion that fracking is an …

Companies that rely on cold weather are understandably up in arms when it comes to the impact of global warming. Consequently, more than 100 ski areas have signed onto the Climate Declaration calling for U.S. policies that capture the economic …

MOORE, OK- MAY 20: Cars marked with an orange 'X', denoting they had been checked for occupants (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) When I compared Angelina’s Jolie’s decision-making courage when responding to a scientific consensus about …

Susie CagleHere at Grist, climate change is our bread and melting butter. But this month, we’re feeling especially hot and bothered. As part of our in-depth look at the warming planet, we’ve compiled a list of the U.S. cities that we think will be in the …

With help from Erica Martinson. TODAY’S THE DAY:  Ernest Moniz officially becomes the 12th secretary of Energy today at 10 a.m. The Energy Department says no press will be allowed into the swearing-in ceremony, which is a “brief event for Department …

Kerry Emanuel registered as a Republican as soon he turned 18, in 1973. The aspiring scientist was turned off by what he saw as the Left’s blind ideology. “I had friends who denied Pol Pot was killing people in Cambodia,” he says. “I reacted very badly to …

Yesterday afternoon, a panel of experts was convened by a House subcommittee to discuss taking action on climate change. Earlier, the heavy machinery that was once Barack Obama's campaign team, Organizing For America, began a new push to hold …

Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart led his first hearing on climate change Thursday, where three scientists urged the government to greatly increase its investments in green-energy technologies, but had differing opinions about taking sudden steps to cut …

(Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune) Marsha Branan prepares to examine a Roto-Rod, a device that collects daily pollen samples, to count the pollen particles at Intermountain Allergy and Asthma in Draper on April 18, 2013. These samples are used to …

Re "Most in U.S. worried about sea level rise," March 30 Building sea walls and other measures to protect coastal developments address the symptoms of climate change, not the cause. We need to support legislation to counteract global warming, …