The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune, with support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Add another potential disaster to the growing list associated with the shrinking Great Salt Lake: the implosion of the cleanup...
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June 16, 2021June 20, 2022Environment, News
Lake Powell pipeline plans to tap water promised to the Utes. Why the tribe sees it as yet another racially based scheme
By Emma Penrod The following story was supported by funding from The Water Desk and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Utah politicians and water officials have for years insisted that there is ample water in the Colorado River to fill its planned 140-mile Lake Powell...
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October 22, 2018June 20, 2022Environment
Documents raise safety concerns about Uranium waste site on Ute reservation
The following was researched and written by Emma Penrod for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. There once was a time when the children of White Mesa played outdoors without their parents fearing for their health. But for as long as Yolanda Badback can remember, the remote...