Earlier this year, the Trump administration asked Congress for something unusual: $1 billion to save a lake. The president’s budget request proposes a major federal investment to restore the Great Salt Lake, which it calls “a critical economic and ecological asset” for the nation. It comes after Utah’s legislature passed a resolution calling on Washington […]

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has picked a new leader tasked with helping save the shrinking Great Salt Lake.  Hannah Freeze, who most recently served as deputy of the state’s Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner, will replace former commissioner Brian Steed, who recently accepted a new job as Utah State University’s vice president of […]