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Utah Department of
Environmental Quality
During the 2010 Legislature, the Department of Environmental Quality will seek legislation aimed at providing a permanent fix to a dwindling fund that pays for oversight of waste management in the state.
Picture this: An accurate map that pinpoints all the injection wells in Utah and across the Nation.
They are as varied as the good work they do, but all are devoted to the environment and the community they serve. They are the following DEQ employees who have been honored for their outstanding work:
Vickie Patton, deputy general counsel for Environmental Defense Fund, likes to think we all can make a difference. Take the moms and docs who rallied for clean air, or professors like Arden Pope whose studies help policymakers better understand the health impacts of air pollution, or the voters of Colorado who passed a renewable energy standard. And, then there’s the DEQ scientists like Colleen Delaney.
In 2008, a total of 1.6 million kilowatt hours of electricity were conserved and 5.5 million pounds of solid waste reduced due to the combined accomplishments of companies that are Clean Utah partners.