Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – COVID-19 relief and recovery plans aimed at recycling and reusing more of the billions of tonnes of materials consumed each year could slash planet-heating emissions and limit the impacts of climate change, researchers said on Tuesday. By developing and promoting ways to reduce the amount of minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass used in new products, greenhouse gas emissions could be cut by 39%, or 22.8 billion gigatonnes annually, said a report by Amsterdam-based social enterprise Circle Economy. “Governments are making huge decisions that will shape our climate future,” CEO Martijn Lopes Cardozo said in a statement.…

OGDEN, Utah — Police were called Tuesday evening to a home on Brinker Avenue in Ogden, where it was reported that a man had been shot. Upon arrival, it was found that a man, about 35 years old, had been shot in the abdomen when he intervened in a dispute between two women and attempted to get one of the women to leave the house. Lt. Matt Ward, with the Ogden Police Department, said officers were dispatched at about 5:32 p.m. to the home on the 2700 block of Brinker. “It sounds like an ongoing issue between two females over…