Bob Bennett

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Utah Senators Want Oil Shale Development

July 3rd, 2008

Utah’s Republican senators say Congress is set to extend a moratorium on commercial oil-shale development on federal land for another year.
Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett want to let the moratorium expire at the end of September and let companies develop shale as an alternative fuel.
Hatch and Bennett said deposits in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming [...]

Mineral Basin mine cleanup ready for finishing touches

August 24th, 2006

They make for a collection of strange bedfellows. But together, they are about to accomplish something unprecedented.
A conservation group, a jewelry company, a ski resort and the federal government have pooled their resources to reclaim an abandoned hard-rock mine complex in Mineral Basin that has been leaking heavy metals into the [...]