Energy

A New Mexico lawmaker wants an inquiry into the site's long-term usage, saying it could consume enough water to supply 30,000 homes. The project has already been put on hold after criticisms.

City leaders voted unanimously for a plan to develop a nuclear training and research campus on their USU campus. It marks an early step in bringing a nuclear energy industrial revolution to Utah.

The Trump administration argued financial factors outweighed a slew of environmental and other harms posed by the nearly 12,000-acre expansion.

Utah high school students are organizing with the Sierra Club to get clean energy into the Salt Lake City School District.

A new generation of small nuclear reactors is poised to come online in the next few years. Safety experts worry the Trump administration has chosen speed over safety.

Oil access and prices have become more fraught since the start of the Iran War. National security and conservation experts argued the U.S. should turn to renewable sources instead.

The Trump administration created a new report showing how much coal lies under public acres. It's part of a federal initiative to reinvigorate the declining industry.

One of the biggest concerns with solar is a loss of farmland. However, new research found that solar uses half a percent or less of prime farmland in each state.

One reactor in Utah and two others in Idaho had already "gone critical," or managed to turn on a test reactor. The Trump administration wanted at least three by the country's 250th birthday.

For the first time, solar power generated more electricity than coal during a full calendar month — a milestone that underscores how quickly the nation's power system is changing.