There is a new push to protect the Great Salt Lake by elevating the lake itself in local policy decisions. The environmental group Save Our Great Salt Lake is planning to ask city councils
SALT LAKE CITY — There is a new push to protect the Great Salt Lake by elevating the lake itself in local policy decisions.
The resolution declares that people and animals have the right to a sustainable, healthy natural environment. In an interview with FOX 13 News on Friday, Salt Lake City Council Chair Darin Mano said he was intrigued by the resolution. Alarmed by the harms of a shrinking Great Salt Lake the Utah State Legislature has spent hundreds of millions of dollars and passed bills aimed at water conservation and protecting it, including having impacts to the lake be considered in future developments. Governor Spencer Cox issued an order blocking new water diversions to protect the lake.
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