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A screengrab from President Buu Nygren's video statement on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act released by the Navajo Nation Washington Office, April 18, 2024.
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The 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is set to expire in June. Now, Congress — and Utah’s delegation — is grappling over whether to expand or merely extend the program.
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In 1888, the daily Salt Lake Herald-Republican reprinted a story from a Canadian paper. The headline? That a family of whales was flourishing in the Great Salt Lake. True? No, but the idea caught on and became local folklore. The short film “Whales of the High Desert” examines the story and asks what it means to believe that whales could ever thrive here, so far from the ocean.

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