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Environmental Quality
Utah’s new immigration law, SB81, takes effect July 1, amid questions and concerns that it will impact many state agencies, including the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
Sixty-eight percent of Department of Environmental (DEQ) employees polled would like to keep the four-day workweek set to reach its one-year anniversary mark in August.
On May 19, Governor Jon Huntsman appointed Amanda Smith as the executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality where she serves as the “acting” executive director until her Senate confirmation hearing in August.
To understand the evolution of Frank Stehno as the Department of Environmental Quality’s new webmaster is to dig into his past. A college-educated paleontologist, anthropologist, and geologist, Stehno left academia for poetry, then poetry for geology, eventually geology for technical writing.
Andrew Harding, president and CEO of Kennecott Utah Copper, said being good stewards of the environment, and doing so in a transparent way, is part of the copper company’s way of doing business when it mines for metals.