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Utah Senate leader rages at lax nuke waste oversight
09/12/12Senate President Mike Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, flayed state regulators for their tepid response to new reports by the Legislative Auditor General's Office that suggested the state relies too heavily on others – including the regulated companie< Read more > -
Slap to Obama: GOP House votes to kill health law; Matheson among 5 Democrats to join
07/11/12WASHINGTON – Pressing an election-year point, Republicans pushed yet another bill through the House on Wednesday to repeal the nation's two-year-old health care law, a maneuver that forced Democrats to choose between President Barack Obama's< Read more > -
Congress takes up Utah land bill
06/19/12Utah will swap mineral rights with the Ute Indians in a land exchange that advanced in Congress.< Read more > -
House strips medical device tax from health-care law
06/08/12Washington The House moved Thursday to strike a new tax on medical devices before it goes into effect, the latest attempt in a persistent campaign to remove this funding source from President Barack Obama's signature health-reform law.< Read more > -
Along a Utah Range, a New Skirmish Over Development or Conservation
05/29/12The competing bill, the Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act, was created after two years of public meetings and was introduced by Representative Jim Matheson, a Democrat who represents the area.< Read more > -
Cleanup of uranium waste near Moab will slow, which concerns lawmakers
04/29/12Last week Matheson wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the pace and cost-effectiveness of the agency's current strategy for the cleanup. He noted that the job won't be done until 2029 at the current rate.< Read more > -
Matheson Presses Energy Dept. on Moab Tailings Cleanup Slowdown
04/25/12(KCPW News) Utah Congressman Jim Matheson is pressing the Department of Energy on a five-year contract it awarded last year for the removal of 3.1 million tons of radioactive mill tailings from the Moab Tailings Project Site along the Colorado River< Read more > -
Editorial: Moab tailings
04/23/12Deseret News editorial calls for maintaining progress on radioactive tailings cleanup on the Colorado River near Moab.< Read more > -
Wasatch wilderness
04/02/12Rep. Jim Matheson has a goal to protect critical watershed in the Wasatch canyons above the Salt Lake Valley, and to that end has resurrected wilderness-designation legislation that ignited intense debate in 2010< Read more > -
Ute land swap
03/23/12It's so seldom these days that Democratic and Republican members of Congress, environmentalists, and state and federal land managers agree on anything, so that when it happens the phenomenon demands attention.< Read more > -
Bill to exchange tribal land earns plaudits
03/22/12Washington A measure that would preserve Ute Indian lands while opening up other areas in Utah for oil and gas exploration appears to be winning over environmentalists, tribal officials and land managers.< Read more > -
New contractor to take over Moab uranium cleanup
03/06/12A new contractor is set to take over the uranium-mill cleanup near Moab by the end of the month.< Read more > -
Rep. Jim Matheson says Congress won't be addressing immigration any time soon
02/22/12SALT LAKE CITY – The nation cannot abide a "patchwork" of 50 different state immigration laws but U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson says it is unlikely Congress will take on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform any time soon.< Read more > -
Utah's nisei vets honored for faithfulness to unfaithful country
02/19/12Ted Shimizu, a World War II veteran who had a hand in earning the Congressional Gold Medal and was honored at a luncheon Saturday, was thinking, instead, of his fellow Japanese-American soldiers who lost their lives in Europe.< Read more > -
Matheson backs energy development in telephone town hall'
02/03/12Rep. Jim Matheson joined a Republican counterpart from Colorado on Thursday evening on a "telephone town hall" calling for easier development of oil, gas and oil shale in the West.< Read more > -
Utah leaders honor victims of Nevada nuclear testing
01/28/12SALT LAKE CITY – People exposed to radiation because of nuclear weapons testing in Nevada were honored Friday with a ceremony at the Utah State Capitol.< Read more > -
Protesters assail, state defends blended radioactive waste
01/11/12Call it the fable of letting the camel's nose into the radioactive tent. It's the notion that, if the state sticks with its plan to allow blended radioactive waste to continue coming into Utah, then still more too-hot waste is sure to follow and U< Read more > -
Spending Dancers to use $25,000 to teach kids about pollution and environment.
12/15/11Rep. Jim Matheson is joining Rep. Rob Bishop in questioning a $25,000 EPA grant to the Repertory Dance Theatre to fund a dance program to teach Salt Lake schoolchildren about pollution and the environment.< Read more > -
Area Lawmakers React; Matheson, Lee express concerns over debt panel's lack of consensus
11/23/11U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, said he was "very disappointed" with the failed congressional debt "supercommittee" Tuesday while visiting St. George and Cedar City to donate money to Southern Utah charities.< Read more > -
Utah Congress members back easing weapons restrictions
11/17/11A proposal, passed by the U.S. House on Wednesday, would allow a person with a Utah concealed weapons permit to carry a gun in California, New York, and just about every other state, whether officials there liked it or not.< Read more > -
Utah officials pan Interior proposals for Utah wilderness
11/10/11The Interior Department on Thursday urged Congress to preserve several hundred thousand acres of public land in southeastern Utah as wilderness, an idea that brought a swift rebuke from Utah's federal delegation.< Read more > -
Salazar: Desolation Canyon should be protected as wilderness
11/10/11Desolation, Westwater and Mill Creek canyons in Utah's Grand County are among 18 backcountry areas Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said merit wilderness protections by Congress.< Read more > -
Utah leaders aim to delay Hill Air Force Base consolidation
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Rep. Jim Matheson fears slowdown in uranium cleanup
11/06/11A new contract for cleaning up the uranium mill tailings cleanup outside of Moab brings in an Idaho company to replace lead contractor EnergySolutions, Inc., and Rep. Jim Matheson says it will also mean a dramatic slowdown of work at the site.< Read more > -
Moab uranium tailings cleanup gets national award
10/31/11The uranium tailings cleanup outside of Moab was honored last week with a U.S. Department of Energy Secretary's Achievement Award. The award, presented by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., recognized the cleanup's< Read more > -
St. George Spectrum: Students impress Matheson
10/20/11Seventh-graders meet with U.S. Representative< Read more > -
Opposing View: Return Foreign Earnings to USA
10/13/11Jim Matheson - Mike Ross response on Freedom to Invest Act< Read more > -
Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: Nuclear Storage
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Matheson: Focus shifted after attacks
09/11/11Washington Rep. Jim Matheson huddled in his Capitol Hill office eyeing television images of the burning twin towers until he heard a police officer rushing through the hallway screaming for everyone to evacuate.< Read more > -
Foreign earnings tax break could add 2.9 million jobs, study says
09/07/11A huge one-time tax break to lure back some of the approximately $1.4 trillion in earnings held abroad by U.S. companies would produce nearly 3 million jobs over two years, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.< Read more > -
Matheson Weighs in on Upcoming Speech, Clean Air Rules
09/06/11(KCPW News) As the business sector anticipates President Obama's job creation speech to Congress Thursday night, Democratic Utah Representative Jim Matheson is hoping to see some specific plans. But how much of an impact can a speech, or the federal g< Read more > -
Rep. Jim Matheson seeks tax break for American companies doing business overseas
09/06/11WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama talks to the nation about the economy Thursday, a Utah congressman will be listening for one of his own proposals to grow the private sector and encourage jobs.< Read more > -
Matheson fears high-level N-waste could head to Utah
08/17/11The plan to store thousands of tons of nuclear waste in Utah's west desert could again surface after a federal panel suggested finding a temporary home for the spent fuel now piling up at reactors across the country.< Read more > -
Blue Dogs urge supercommittee members to forge bipartisan dea
08/12/11The Blue Dog Coalition is urging the newly formed congressional debt-reduction panel to work together toward a bipartisan agreement.< Read more > -
Utah delegation shuns compromise, fears tea party
08/07/11Whew!" or "Dang!" – readers can choose their response (or worse) to passage of the debt ceiling compromise. The measure passed handily, but without much help from Utah's congressional delegation. Only Rep. Jim Matheson supported it. That raises some interesting questions.< Read more > -
Proud of Matheson
08/04/11Rep. Rob Bishop boasted last week that it was time to forge a workable compromise on the debt-ceiling crisis ("Bishop takes his own road on debt-crisis talks," Tribune, July 31). When I read that report, I thought: Bully for Bishop! Finally, we have a Uta< Read more > -
The moderate middle wins the day
08/01/11For weeks, the debt-ceiling debate has been defined by a clash of the extremes; tea party conservatives seeking to dramatically reshape government and committed liberals afraid that doing so would squeeze the poor and the working class.< Read more > -
Utah lawmakers pass 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' legislation
07/20/11WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011, in an attempt to address the growing financial concerns with federal spending and the concern over raising the nation's debt< Read more > -
Major natural gas development in Uintah Basin could mean up to 4,000 jobs
06/09/11A major natural gas development in the Uintah Basin that could create more than 4,000 jobs over the life of the project moved closer to reality Thursday following the announcement of a plan to mitigate air quality impacts of developing more than 3,675 nat< Read more >