Salt Lake Tribune Announces Their Endorsement of President Obama 7

Woo-hoo! Talk about a slap in Mitten’s face, the state’s leading newspaper in Utah announced their support and endorsement for President Barack Obama today.

In the SL Tribune Editorial published Friday, the Tribune acknowledged that Romney had become the “state’s adopted son” after rescuing the Olympics from sure failure. That was the Mitt Romney that they had grown to know and love.

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Utah Doctors Sue Third Largest Mining Corp over Polluting the Air 7

Here is the first of it’s kind lawsuit….  Taking inspiration from the Occupy movement, in late December a group of doctors and environmental groups in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced a lawsuit against the third-largest mining corporation in the world, Rio Tinto, for violating the Clean Air Act in Utah. This is likely the first time ever that physicians have sued industry for harming public health.

Air pollution causes between 1,000 and 2,000 premature deaths every year in Utah.

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