The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and their possible outsized impact on the climate is one of the primary reasons ...

SALT LAKE CITY— The Trump administration pushed forward today with leasing tar sands across 2,100 acres of public lands in northeastern Utah near the Green River, updating a plan from 2013 just weeks ...

The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and their possible outsized impact on the climate is one of the primary reasons ...

Utah tar sands lack the water and the bitumen directly contacts the sand grains, making them "oil-wet." Bitumen is removed from tar sands in Canada with hot water, but the process isn't able to strip ...

TarSandsMap.jpg A rainbow frames a tailings pile, part of Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands’ tar sands project at PR Spring atop Utah’s Book Cliffs. A backhoe works to widen a road that runs by Buck Canyon ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new ...

Just as is true in the case of oil shale in Colorado and the surrounding region, Utah has a long, colorful and to date largely futile history when it comes to efforts to develop tar sands. That's ...

Tar sands and oil shale would require too much water and destroy too much of Utah's scenery and yet would contribute very little to the nation's supply of fossil fuels, according... Tar sands and oil ...

The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and their possible outsized impact on the climate is one of the primary reasons ...

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SALT LAKE CITY— The Trump administration pushed forward today with leasing tar sands across 2,100 acres of public lands in northeastern Utah near the Green River, updating a plan from 2013 just weeks ...

Construction takes place at the U.S. Oil Sands commercial tar sands operation, in the Book Cliffs, in eastern Utah on July 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Canadian ...