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A plan to protect Utah from US Magnesium’s toxic waste relies on something that is disappearing
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A plan to protect Utah from US Magnesium’s toxic waste relies on something that is disappearing

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...

Lake Powell pipeline plans to tap water promised to the Utes. Why the tribe sees it as yet another racially based scheme
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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...