SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 20 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 12 attorneys general in Kurtz v. Kimberly-Clark Corp in supporting class members who objected to attorneys receiving $3 million while the injured consumer class received only $1 million. The case originated from a class action lawsuit brought against Kimberly Clark alleging that flushable wipes aren't actually flushable. Both the private plaintiffs and Kimberly   more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, June 17 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: Dr. Mileva Radonjic, associate professor and Samson Investment Chair in Petroleum Engineering, has received over $3 million in funding for a collaborative project titled "Enhanced Geothermal System Concept Testing and Development at the Milford City, Utah Forge Site." This three-year sub-recipient award from the Utah FORGE project through the University of Utah is for a Department of Energy project that aims  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 22 -- The Office of the Utah Attorney General issued the following news: Utah's Children's Justice Centers are in nearly every county in the state and are a safe place for abused children to talk about and provide evidence regarding what they've been through. These CJCs look like residential homes to provide a comfortable, secure environment for interviewing young victims of violent crime. The Utah Attorney General's Office oversees the state's CJCs, designed as impo  more

RESTON, Virginia, June 22 -- Electrify America, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, issued the following news release: Electrify Commercial, a business unit of Electrify America, and Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp, announced today the opening of Rocky Mountain Power's first hyper-fast charging stations in Millcreek and Vernal. To support electric vehicle adoption in Utah, the new stations are part of a broader collaboration to bring 20 charging stations to the Salt Lake  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, June 21 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: The states of Utah and Wyoming have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah challenging the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) final Public Lands Rule. The lawsuit states that despite the States' objections, and multiple other interested parties, BLM sidestepped National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, and unreasonably concluded that no extraordinary circumstanc  more

FORT COLLINS, Colorado, June 21 (TNSres) -- Colorado State University issued the following news release on June 20, 2024: * * * Ancient marvel's ornate horns point to evolutionary insights * * * What do you get when you cross Norse mythology with a 78-million-year-old ancestor to the Triceratops? Answer: Lokiceratops rangiformis, a plant-eating dinosaur with a very fancy set of horns. The new dinosaur was identified and named by Colorado State University affiliate faculty member Joseph Se  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things take--a complex but largely unconscious calculation running constantly beneath the surface of our thoughts. Now, researchers at University of Utah Health have found that, in mice, a specific  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute issued the following news release: The mean center of population and employment in northern Utah both fall in Salt Lake City, according to a new analysis from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. This reflects the strong influence Utah's Greater Salt Lake economic region, namely Salt Lake City and County, plays as the state's cultural, economic, and political heart. The region encompasses 86.7% of t  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: U.S. and Utah fertility rates continued a multi-year decline in 2022. A new fact sheet released today by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute shows that the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) declined from 1.664 in 2021 to 1.656 in 2022, a 0.5% decline. Utah's rate, which has declined or stayed constant for 14 years, declined from 1.919 in 2021 to 1.85  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 20 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: On Tuesday, the states of Utah and Wyoming, where federally-controlled land is abundant, filed a joint lawsuit challenging the new BLM Public Lands Rule (https://publiclands.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/12824_4_PLPCO_PL_Factsheet_V3.pdf). The states are suing the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for failure to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NE  more