State & Regional

Report gives Utah a glow up on hosting a ‘climate positive’ Olympics

KUER 90.1 | By Martha Harris

Published May 4, 2023 at 2:55 PM MDT

Catherine Raney Norman (right), Olympic speed skater and vice chair of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, sits next to Fraser Bullock (left), president and CEO of the committee. Raney Norman answers questions about Utah’s Olympic bid during a panel put on by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute on April 27, 2023, at the Thomas S. Monson Center in downtown Salt Lake City.

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute says “Utah’s demographic, social, and environmental factors favorably position the state to host another successful Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.”

After a glowing report from the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, the leaders behind Utah’s Olympic bid, alongside Utah Clean Energy, feel confident about the state’s ability to successfully host a “climate positive” Winter Games.

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