Congress allocated billions of dollars through the infrastructure law to plug orphaned well sites across the country, with Utah being one of the first states to receive the help. Dave Jenkins, president of Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship, said lawmakers should be doing more to hold "bad actors" accountable. According to the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining s website, a reported 46 orphan wells in the state are not plugged and are abandoned, scattered on private, state and federal lands. .
Justices will hear arguments from defenders of a livestock welfare law that aims to ban gestation cages for sows and battery cages for egg-laying hens.
The city of Columbus has received an overwhelming number of comments asking for a more aggressive reduction in carbon air emissions than proposed in its draft climate action plan.
A draft of the city s 49-page plan calls for the city to make a 25% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, using 2018 as a baseline.
Critics of the city s plan say the reduction doesn t go far enough, citing the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which calls for a 45% reduction in carbon emissions worldwide by 2030 in order to stop the planet from warming at higher rates. Carbon emissions are mainly from burning fossil fuels in vehicles and factories, but also can be exacerbated by increasing development and sweeping deforestation.