When natural gas producers waste gas and emit methane in Utah, it’s not only the economy that suffers, according to a report. Air quality, public health and the environment lose out, too.

In 2011, oil production in Utah increased 14.5 percent and gas production was up 5.7 percent, thanks to drilling on state and trust lands, said Cody Stewart, energy advisor to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert.

The energy business has never been a zero-sum game and in my view it never will be. The geothermal breakthroughs we are seeing in Utah, based on oil and gas sector technologies, shows this to be true.

Utah oil and mining barons, along with the state of Utah, want the U.S. Supreme Court to rubber-stamp their plot to make millions at the expense of us in Colorado.

The historic City and County Building in downtown Salt Lake City is shrouded in smog Jan. 14, 2010. EPA's downgrade of the smog standard compliance status for Utah’s Uinta Basin could force new ...

Utah gas prices inch toward $3 per gallon, closer to national average Inflation gauge tracked by Federal Reserve shows price pressures easing gradually Higher temps mean higher food and other prices.

It’s a lot more labor-intensive and you can’t realistically truck a large amount of oil — 50,000 or 100,000 barrels a day — all the way to east Texas,” Reed Page, director of gas ...