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Emma Penrod
The independent science writer has covered water regulation and policy for nearly a decade, starting out in rural Utah, where water shortages have become something of an annual ritual. She’s currently on the hunt for an air freshener that makes her house smell like afternoon thunderstorms in the high desert all the time.
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- News, Cover Story April 10, 2019
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Attack of the 20,000-Acre Inland Port!
A cautionary tale on how a similar project wreaked havoc on a small Illinois town.
- But that was before developers left it strewn with broken promises—low-wage jobs, crumbling infrastructure, insane traffic and, in a first for a largely rural community, air pollution.
- News, March 27, 2019
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Missing Metals
Utah's search for Gold King Mine waste in Lake Powell raises questions about the role of politics in science.
- Two years after the spill, the EPA concluded that the San Juan and Animas rivers had essentially returned to normal, and that, in fact, the 2015 spill had been relatively minimal—the equivalent, the agency estimated, to just four to seven days of normal discharge from the Gold King Mine.
- News, February 6, 2019
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Golden Ticket
Inside the local connection that helped put Utah on the craft chocolate map. Hint: It's the Mormons.
- Mormons already had a longstanding history of candy making, Seguine says.
- News, Cover Story November 28, 2018
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The Precarious Plan for the Lake Powell Pipeline
Officials in Utah’s fastest-growing county are obscuring details of what a high-stakes project will cost taxpayers.
- While proponents argued that the project was necessary to stave off water shortages, Lozada warned that it might trigger an economic crisis.
- News, Cover Story August 23, 2018
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Oasis Lost
With urbanization sprawling west, one of the most important landscapes in the western hemisphere—the wetlands of the Great Salt Lake—is at risk of disappearing.
- According to Neville, humans began modifying the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands almost as soon as they arrived on the scene, and very few of Utah’s wetlands remain untouched.
- News, Cover Story July 11, 2018
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Buried Hazards
Contamination cleanup on inland port site could be possible, but it won’t be easy—or cheap.
- A number of reasons are emerging as to why development plans in Salt Lake's Northwest Quadrant have rarely been realized.
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Attack of the 20,000-Acre Inland Port!
A cautionary tale on how a similar project wreaked havoc on a small Illinois town.
April 10, 2019
