In that same meeting, Rep. Doug Owens, D-Millcreek, asked his legislative colleagues for $72,000 to expand air monitoring around the Great Salt Lake because of toxic dust. Rep. Owens, who co-chairs ...

Saline lakes are rapidly losing water to climate change and agricultural and urban uses, becoming some of the West’s most ...

Climate change, agribusiness, and mining interests are choking the Great Salt Lake. Activists say Utah's state legislature ...

It travels further still: dust from the Great Salt Lake has been found from Southern Utah to Wyoming. When toxic dust reaches us, we breathe it in. So do our kids. There’s no doubt that air ...

The Great Salt Lake is facing unprecedented danger according to a new report conducted by BYU students and faculty in ...

toxic dust storms and impacts to public health, wildlife and the economy. Lawmakers are expected to spend upwards of $500 million on water conservation and Great Salt Lake measures this year.

Toxic dust storms will poison cities. 5. What is the only way to save the Great Salt Lake? The only way to save the Great Salt Lake is to decrease the amount of water removed from the rivers that ...

For the Great Salt Lake, it might be now ... “Are we willing to accept the lake is not going to be productive? That we’re going to have dust storms and an ecosystem not thriving and in collapse?

The Great Salt Lake also helps to prevent toxic dust particles from entering the atmosphere. According to the BYU report, the bed of the Great Salt Lake has pollutants such as arsenic, mercury and ...