Editorial Board: The Utah Legislature wore blue. They didn't set a minimum target level for the Great Salt Lake, or make golf courses measure and report the water they use. They killed or held those bills. But they did wear blue.
, a community of fewer than 1,500 souls in the Cache Valley of northern Utah, far from the industrial smokestacks of Salt Lake City. The list of unfortunate bergs also included Logan and Smithfield, also in the Cache Valley, and the Wasatch Front communities of South Salt Lake, Woods Cross and East Millcreek.
The increasing attention to the state’s water situation is clearly linked to the growing understanding that the ever-lower level of the Great Salt Lake threatens to produce an ongoing dust storm that will blow toxic chemicals, which have flowed into the lake for generations, over the homes and into the lungs of a new generation of downwinders.
It is more than troubling that the revelation about US Magnesium didn’t come from any local or state agency. It wasn’t a red alert pushing anyone to action. It was Magnesium is not just something found in nutritional supplements. It is a key material to modern industrial economy, providing a tough and light-weight replacement for plastics and for heavier metals in everything from electronics to cars and aircraft. Cars and aircraft that can be more fuel-efficient than older versions.
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