One Utah

On the heels of the Crandall Canyon disaster and numerous rejections of new coal plants nationwide, this urgent message comes from Tim Wagner of Utah’s chapter of the Sierra Club:
Dear Clean Energy and Clean Air Activists,
Our friends in Sevier County desperately need our help. The Sevier Power Company is pushing hard to obtain clearances to [...]

Listening to Crandall Canyon mine owner Robert Murray on TV the other day, I heard him but saw only rainbows, twinkling stars and happy children playing outside in the middle of January. Here was the operator of a notorious facility in a notorious industry not pulling the community together and giving us the truth about [...]

Let me begin by saying I apologize. I’ve been gone promoting my new movie, hob-nobbing with Hollywood bigshots and lowlifes, and basking in the human-induced tanning machine that is southern California for a while (note driving with the top down and AC off to prevent damage to ozone-layer but lack of hands-free cell headset to [...]

Biological Weapons Research and Development Pose Risks Worldwide
Article by Steve Erickson
At a remote, secretive desert base 75 miles west of Salt Lake City, the Army plans to renovate an historic cold war laboratory to expand dramatically its biological warfare testing.
The US Army proposes to completely rehab the drab Baker Laboratory, a centerpiece of the Dugway [...]

It’s another Ozone Red Alert day here on the Wasatch Front. It’s now been almost three months since I installed a 2 kWh, ten-PV panel, sun-tracking solar power system in my backyard. Some of you may have even watched the video of its installation: a series titled “Harvesting the Sun” on my website schreinervideo.com. When [...]

It was a little cloudier Saturday afternoon than Day 1 so solar production was slightly off. And as you can see by following the yellow line (left above chart), it was a bigger consumption day. Like most people do on weekends, we did laundry, used the coffee maker, paid bills using computers and printers, ironed [...]

When is fighting for what you believe admirable and right or just plain stupid and self-destructive? The Bush Administration and the people and leaders of Utah are finding that out right now. As the U.S. Supreme Court and other judicial entities knock down case after case of administration environmental chicanery and other abuses of power, [...]

Maybe our political leaders hope the new Japanese discovery that removes pollutants from our air will save the people of the Wasatch Front from doom. It’s a good thing Gov. Huntsman is listening to the new Utah Physicians For a Healthy Environment, a new group of doctors formed to address our air crisis. They all [...]

News is just a bunch of unrelated events and facts unless you have the curiosity and analytical ability to connect facts and determine what it all means. Connecting facts is not just the job of the journalist but the responsible citizen. And some leaders in Utah are finally making the connections in our unfolding environmental [...]

While I always remain skeptical of sudden government announcements, I am overjoyed over today’s announcement (below). I and dozens of others have been working hard on this for about a year now.
Cancellation of Proposed Divine Strake Experiment
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has decided to cancel the proposed Divine Strake experiment. ?I have become convinced [...]

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”- Edmund Burke
As I sat bored through the Super Bowl, I wondered why it didn’t seem to to matter. When I was younger and a huge Bears fan living in Chicago, it all seemed so important. Now, I didn’t [...]

A red alert, I mean, red letter day in Utah history.
Salt Lake and Davis counties, home to more than 1 million people, have been under a “red” alert for 16 days in January, which means the unhealthy air should be avoided by the elderly or anyone with respiratory problems. Some schools have kept kids off [...]