Utah

From outside Salt Lake City, Utah, Jenny Brundin (brun-DEEN) reports on the Goshute (GO-shoot) Indian Tribe’s plan to provide storage for the nation’s 77 thousand tons of unwanted nuclear waste. While it would bring money and jobs to the area, not all Goshutes like the idea.

During the 1996 election campaign, President Clinton authorized the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in the Utah wilderness. There’s not much difference between a national monument and a national park, except that the creation of national monuments doesn’t require the approval of Congress. Mr. Clinton may not have had the votes on Capitol Hill, but he […]