* SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE * For Immediate Release: June 22, 2017 Contact: Landon Newell, Staff Attorney Tel: 801-428-3991 Acting in lockstep with the Trump administration’s relentless onslaught against federal public lands, the BLM is proposing to offer at the agency’s December 2017 oil and gas lease sale 79 parcels...
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Utah Counties’ Closed Door Meetings with Zinke and Others Violates Utah Open and Public Meetings Act
San Juan, Kane and Garfield County Commissions held a series of unlawful meetings over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 15, 2017 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 David Reymann, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, 801.257.7939 In response to a series of recent,...
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SUWA Statement on Secretary Zinke’s Interim Report on Bears Ears
For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017 Contact: Mathew Gross, (435) 259-4316 Today Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued an interim report that signaled his desire to greatly reduce the Bears Ears National Monument. A final report is expected in August. The following statement is from Mathew Gross, Media Director of the...
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Citizen Activism Prevails! Zion National Park Spared from Proposed Oil and Gas Leasing!
Terrific news! The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has pulled back an outrageous proposal to lease federal public lands for oil and gas development at the doorstep of Zion National Park. And it was citizen action that made the difference! The problem emerged this past winter when the BLM identified...
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BLM-UTAH WILL REVISIT DECISIONS REGARDING OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLES AND OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN RED ROCK COUNTRY
Longstanding litigation over six BLM-Utah land use plans and travel management plans brought to a close An order issued today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit clears the way for BLM-Utah to begin implementing a comprehensive settlement agreement that will result in the completion of...
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