Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – With the new administration’s robust focus on energy policy, energy efficiency efforts have taken on momentum around the US. In 2050, roughly half the US building stock will be buildings that are standing today. While new buildings will be constructed, we will also need to substantially reduce energy use and emissions from existing buildings. Typical building retrofits reduce energy use by 10-25%, but deep retrofits save at least 30% and sometimes more than 50%. To green a building is to increase the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy, water, and materials and of reducing impacts on human…

OGDEN, Utah – A Utah man charged with trafficking methamphetamine from a camper to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana has been sentenced to federal prison. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Montana, 33-year-old Andrew Gomez of Ogden pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson. In court documents filed in the case, the prosecution says Gomez and his co-defendant, 39-year-old Jeffrey Dabb of Ogden, towed a camper from Utah and rented…