Sigurd News

The Utah Supreme Court ruled last week that state air quality regulators should have required an outfit that wants to build a coal-fired power plant at Sigurd to include coal gasification as a best available control technology.

The Utah Supreme Court on Friday threw new obstacles in front of plans for a new Sevier County coal-fired power plant in Sigurd.

Sometimes there's less to a cover-up than meets the eye. The death last week of Utah artist V. Douglas Snow, who was killed when his SUV rolled over on a highway near Sigurd, prompted me to go take a look at the abstract painter's most controversial work: The 19-foot high, 15-foot wide 1997 mural "Capitol Reef," which was installed behind the bench ...

In the days before he died, renowned Utah muralist and painter V. Douglas Snow told friends he was not ready to retire his brush.

Developers of a controversial coal-fired power plant in Sevier County now intend to transport and dispose of the proposed facility's fly ash in Carbon County and Tooele County landfills rather than close to home.

Winds whipped up a fire burning southeast of Scipio on Tuesday, forcing the Utah Highway Patrol to close U.S. Highway 50 in both directions between Scipio and Salina in central Utah.

Pictured here is one of the two existing coal-fired units operating at the Intermountain Power Project near Delta.

The element 112, discovered at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry .

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