Here is what’s in Donald Trump’s $1B plan to save the Great Salt Lake

Visiting EPA administrator throws support behind Great Salt Lake, punts on controversial data center

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, in blue, tours the Great Salt Lake at Farmington Bay on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Pool photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune)Before discussing the $1 billion allotment in President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget to help save Utah’s ailing Great Salt Lake, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency took a tour on an airboat.  This article is published through the Great…

Here is what’s in Donald Trump’s $1B plan to save the Great Salt Lake

Trump's EPA head unveils the president's $1 billion funding request, floated in February, to help save the shrinking Great Salt Lake.