![]() ![]() “Clean, high-paying, hard science jobs,” said Nathan Rich, CEO of IsoTruss. In Utah County, companies like IsoTruss, which builds more-sustainable-than-steel infrastructure out of carbon fiber, hope to resurrect a greener version of what the county once was. The fate of energy and manufacturing in Utah’s old steel and coal counties may be bound together: But could there still be a greener economic future for coal? And in Emery County, the major private employer is Pacificorp’s two coal-fired power plants, which are scheduled for shut down over the next two decades.Ĭoal country’s pains come as energy consumers and producers look to cleaner sources of energy. Carbon and Emery are among the few Utah counties that shrank in population over last 10 years, according to the 2020 census. Meanwhile in Utah’s coal country, the pain of economic change is real. And Utah County’s economy is now built around its exploding tech sector and two large higher education institutions. Parts of the old site are still under environmental clean up, but the rest is now home to the fastest growing city in the nation, Vineyard, Utah. Geneva Steel has been shuttered for two decades now. It also helped put Utah County on the map for some of the worst air quality in the nation and high levels of respiratory cancer for a county with so few smokers. Built to provide inland steel production during World War II, Geneva Steel shaped the economy of Utah Valley for half a century. ![]()
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