Brian Maffly Reporter
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Brian Maffly covers Utah's public lands for The Salt Lake Tribune.

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  • Public Land
  • Environment

318 Articles
over 2 years ago
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Power generation on the Colorado is drying up

The West’s historic drought is not only threatening water supplies, but also depressing electrical power generation i...

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Republican lawmakers flush bill requiring low-flow plumbing fixtures

“I have concerns about the government telling me what kind of toilet I can have in my house,” one lawmaker said.

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over 2 years ago
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Biden returns 2 million acres to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase

Biden will deliver remarks on the move at 12:05 pm.

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over 2 years ago
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Biden expected to announce Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments decision Friday

The White House is expected to issue orders any day restoring all or parts of Utah’s two large national monuments tha...

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over 2 years ago
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Can complicated land trade fix Red Butte Garden’s fence snafu?

The Forest Service looks to a complicated land exchange to resolve Red Butte Garden's apparently illegal inclusion of...

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over 2 years ago
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Intermountain Power Project’s switch from coal to hydrogen could power rural Utah job growth

Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant is headed to an early retirement in 2025, but the Intermountain Power Project’s...

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over 2 years ago
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Is Cedar City’s growth coming at expense of rural Utah?

An Iron County water district is seeking to move up to 15,000 acre-feet of groundwater from Beaver County’s Pine Vall...

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over 2 years ago
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Utah port authority memos reveal coal industry ties to California rail controversy

In March, six months before the rail project came to public attention, a Utah port authority staffer named Christophe...

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over 2 years ago
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Report: BLM turns a blind eye to cattle grazing impacts, blames wild horse

A report highlights the BLM’s eagerness to blame wild horses for habitat degradation in western Utah, while systemati...

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over 2 years ago
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Federal judge rejects much of Ute Tribe’s water-rights lawsuit

A federal judge has dismissed much of the Ute Indian Tribe’s lawsuit over the federal government’s handling of the tr...

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over 2 years ago
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If former state Rep. Mike Noel builds a golf course in the desert, will they come?

A tiny rural Utah water district wants to build a luxury golf course outside Kanab using state dollars and state owne...

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BLM headquarters is heading back to Washington

Haaland’s Republican predecessors orchestrated the 2019 migration of BLM’s executive staff to new headquarters in Gra...

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