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SUWA Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order on the Climate Crisis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3991, landon@suwa.org  Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org  Salt Lake City, UT (January 27, 2021) – President Biden today issued an Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which, among other things,...

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Supreme Court Declines to Review Court Decision on Contentious Public Lands Litigation

State of Utah’s sprawling litigation claiming more than 12,000 dirt paths and stream bottoms as “highways” threatens redrock wilderness across the state Contacts: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org  Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303.815.3158, phil_hanceford@tws.org Brian Fletcher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Clinic, 917.453.9477, bfletcher@stanford.edu  Salt Lake...

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Court Blocks Drilling Set to Begin in Newly Designated Utah Wilderness

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3991, landon@suwa.org Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 859-1552, steve@suwa.org Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, (646) 823-4518, ahawke@nrdc.org Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2424, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org John Weisheit, Living Rivers, (435)-260-2590, john@livingrivers.org Washington, D.C. (December 22,...

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Wild Utah Podcast, Episode 20: Election 2020 and the Redrock

SUWA Legislative Director Jen Ujifusa and Legal Director Steve Bloch discuss how the 2020 election results will affect our work to protect Utah’s wild redrock country, and what we expect President Biden to do with respect to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Wild Utah is made possible by...

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