By JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune

SALT LAKE CITY - Christina McNaughton wasn't sure where to begin looking when worrisome levels of arsenic turned up in two Utah County children last summer. The family's water wasn't contaminated. Not the soil either.

SALT LAKE CITY - The idea of a Great Salt Lake with too little water might seem hard to fathom.

But some of the iconic lake's biggest fans worry about signs it might be water-starved already and what the fallout might be if it shrinks more.

SALT LAKE CITY - Federal regulators have clamped strong new controls on the pesticide believed to have caused the deaths of 4-year-old Rebecca Toone and her 15-month-old sister Rachel the week after an exterminator fumigated rodent holes outside of their Layton, Utah, home.

SALT LAKE CITY - It's not really a question whether Utah will be the disposal site for three trainloads of depleted uranium from a government atomic-weapons complex cleanup in South Carolina.

It's a matter of how soon.

A fight in Washington between Union Pacific Railroad and US Magnesium has put a harsh spotlight on the risks chlorine rail shipments pose for millions of Americans.

Breathing smoggy air over the long term can be deadly.
That's the finding of a groundbreaking ozone study, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-authored by C. Arden Pope of Brigham Young University.

Federal regulators gave their blessing to low-level radioactive waste from Canada and Mexico that is now buried in Utah. But Utah never got the memo. Nor did the regional radioactive waste oversight organization that Utah belongs to.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah magnesium plant that for years ranked as the nation's worst polluter appears headed for a new tally: the Superfund list.

SALT LAKE CITY -- America's landfills for low-level nuclear waste should be conserved for America's waste, according to a new, bipartisan bill to be introduced next week in the U.S. Senate.

WILLARD, Utah -- Geologists studying two trenches gouged from the foothills here might as well be peering through windows on the past -- and into the future.Christopher DuRoss, of the Utah Geological Survey (UGS), says the data being collected on this section of the 240-mile Wasatch Fault can help pinpoint when a big earthquake might happen again and how severe it might be.