Brian Moench: Merging Utah’s environmental quality and natural resources offices is a really awful idea

Within the last few months, Utah lawmakers have climbed aboard the popular train wreck of devaluing scientific expertise. A recent expose by The Salt Lake Tribune revealed that they allowed the nonhealth experts at the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) to steam roll our health experts in crafting the state’s nonsensical, nonscientific and largely failed pandemic response.They doubled down on that train wreck when they wiped away the requirement that the Department of