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UTAH – Coal remains king in Utah’s Emery County despite bankruptcies, shrinking demand and obstacles shipping it oversees. The Bureau of Land Management quietly signed off on a plan to expand a Utah coal producer’s federal lease by 7.2 million tons, adding two or three years of additional production from Emery County’s Lila Canyon mine. But at the same time it shelved a proposal to issue a much larger lease to the mine’s operator, the reorganized Murray Energy Corp., which recently emerged from bankruptcy with a new name and corporate structure. Even as mines shutter all over the United States in the face of…

UTAH – Since the very first days that intrepid pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley with virtually nothing but the clothes on their backs and an indomitable spirit, global engagement has been part and parcel of Utah’s DNA. On a hot summer day shortly after arriving, those early leaders climbed Ensign Peak, an otherwise undistinguished hill less than a mile from where the Utah State Capitol building now stands. They looked out across the barren valley and declared their intent to build a city that would have a leavening effect on the rest of the world and to which “all…