Brady McCombs

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Tesla vehicles line a parking area at the company's Fremont, Calif., factory on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.
Tesla Under Investigation After Delays in Reporting Self-Driving Crashes
August 22, 2025
A sign stands at Prospect Ranch outside of Prospect Valley Dairy east of Keenesburg, Colo., Aug. 21, 2025.
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The Geneva Steel mill under construction in 1942 in Vineyard, Utah. The mill was among Utah’s biggest polluters before it closed in 2001.
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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, taillights trace the path of a motor vehicle at the Naughton Power Plant, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. While the power plant will be closed in 2025, Bill Gates' company TerraPower announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Product Development
In Tiny Wyoming Town, Bill Gates Bets Big on Nuclear Power
TerraPower is planning a nontraditional, sodium-cooled reactor.
January 18, 2022
In this photo provided by the Davis County Sheriff's Office shows Lev Aslan Dermen.
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Businessman Guilty in Polygamist Biodiesel Fraud Scheme
They stole nearly $500 million in government funds.
March 17, 2020
In this photo provided by the Davis County Sheriff's Office shows Lev Aslan Dermen. Openings arguments are set Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Utah for a California businessman who prosecutors accuse of being a key figure in a $511 million tax credit scheme carried out by two executives of a Salt Lake City biodiesel company linked to a polygamous group. The men from the polygamous group pleaded guilty last year to money fraud and other charges and are expected to testify against Lev Aslan Dermen, who has pleaded not guilty.
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Trial Begins for Biodiesel Exec Tied to Polygamy, Fraud
The company created fake production records to get renewable-fuel tax credits and then laundered the proceeds.
January 30, 2020
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Regulation
Plan Allows Drilling, Grazing Near Monument
The land used to be off limits before President Trump downsized the protected area two years ago.
August 26, 2019
Twenty three Union Pacific train cars derailed on March 30, 2019, releasing an unknown quantity of propane after one car overturned about six to eight miles south of Eureka, Utah. Officials blew up 11 derailed tanker cars containing propane and biodiesel in a controlled detonation.
Safety
Officials Blow Up Derailed Train Cars
The controlled detonation was the safest way to deal with explosive material.
April 2, 2019
In this May 11, 2018, file photo, released by the South Jordan Police Department shows a traffic collision involving a Tesla Model S sedan with a fire department mechanic truck stopped at a red light in South Jordan, Utah. Heather Lommatzsch, the Utah driver who slammed her Tesla into the stopped firetruck at a red light while using the vehicle's semi-autonomous function, is suing the company.
Product Development
Driver Sues Tesla After Autopilot Crash
The driver slammed her Tesla into a stopped firetruck at a red light earlier this year.
September 6, 2018
In this Oct. 23, 2009, file photo, coal trucks leave the coal-fired Hunter Power Plant just south of Castle Dale, Utah, after making a delivery. An appeals court has granted a request from President Donald Trump's administration to halt a plan for new pollution controls at Utah's oldest coal-fired power plants aimed at reducing haze near national parks.
Operations
Utah Pollution Controls Halted
The initial regulations were aimed at reducing haze near national parks.
September 12, 2017
In this Friday, June 16, 2017, photo, hydraulic engineering professor Michael Johnson looks at the water flow on a replica of the Oroville Dam spillway at Utah State University's Water Research Laboratory, in Logan, Utah. California water officials are relying on key hydrology tests being performed on the replica of the spillway to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S for a spillway that was torn apart in February.
Product Development
Replica Helps Pinpoint Dam Repairs
Hydraulic engineers use a replica built out of wood, concrete and steel.
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am Wheeler is dead after the high-performance bike he was testing at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats fish-tailed, went airborne and crashed at 200 mph. He was 72.
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Renowned Land Speed Racer, Engineer Dies
Sam Wheeler, an engineer from California, was known as an innovator and pioneer.
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