Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Last week, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a devastating new scientific report detailing the dire consequences of the ongoing—and worsening—climate crisis. The United Nations Secretary General called the findings “a code red for humanity.” (Read the key takeaways from the report here.) The IPCC’s report...
Read More As reported by the New York Times, the IPCC report makes clear that “a hotter future . . . is now essentially locked in.” This hotter future, even if limited to 1.5ºC—the target threshold under the Paris Agreement—will have irreversible global impacts such as “[n]early 1 billion people worldwide could...
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The Biden administration is poised to authorize oil and gas drilling on the doorstep of Dinosaur National Monument. If approved by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the proposal will industrialize a remote and scenic area by greenlighting the construction of new access roads, well pads, and the drilling of...
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There is some entertainment value to Senator Romney and Representative Curtis introducing an Illinois wilderness bill to contrast the more serious proposal from Senator Durbin to protect federally-owned wild lands located within the state of Utah. However, their bill covers the entire Shawnee National Forest regardless of what is still...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jen Ujifusa, Legislative Director, jen@suwa.org Washington, DC (May 11, 2021) – Yesterday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) reintroduced S. 1535, America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, the seminal legislation that would protect 8.4 million acres of public lands in Utah as wilderness. The wild and expansive lands proposed...
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