Widely criticized “No More Wilderness” Policy should be changed Seven years ago, the U.S. Interior secretary and the governor of Utah cut a land management deal that has reverberated across the West ever since. Through an unprecedented interpretation of federal law, this agreement allowed for the removal of federal protections...

Sign the Petition to Overturn the "No More Wilderness" Policy "It was the dark days of 2003, and environmental groups still hadn't quite grasped the full scope of the Bush administration's outrageous disregard for the planet. Then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton was in closed-door negotiations to settle a lawsuit with the...

Air quality problems plague Uintah Basin "Air pollution monitors recently installed in the Uintah Basin measured ozone concentrations exceeding federal health standards more than 68 times in the first three months of 2010, according to U.S. EPA data. On one day in January and two days in February, recorded ozone...

USGS & NASA: Colo. Plateau dust causing early snowmelt; reduction could mitigate climate change Dust caused by human activities in the American desert Southwest is a contributing factor in speeding up the melting of snow and reducing runoff in the mountains of the Colorado River basin, according to a new...

The citizen’s wilderness proposal is not dead “Nine million acres of globally significant wilderness really do remain within our public lands.  Let’s listen to everybody — but we can never give up on the preservation and stewardship of Utah’s irreplaceable wild canyons and fragile deserts.”  Letter-to-the-Editor – The Salt Lake...