For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance 801-236-3762, laura@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT (August 24, 2020) – On Friday, August 21, the Bureau of Land Management released the […]
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CategoriesUncategorized
Good news: Controversial Leases Pulled from September Sale!
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) each recently sent separate letters to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt urging against the leasing of nearly 87,000 acres of redrock country […]
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CategoriesPodcast
Wild Utah Podcast, Episode 16: Defanging NEPA
SUWA attorneys Landon Newell and Kya Marienfeld discuss the recent Trump Administration revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. NEPA and its implementing regulations have been described as […]
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CategoriesClimate Change
Conservation Groups Praise the BLM’s Withdrawal of Oil and Gas Leases Near Utah National Parks
Contact: Steve Bloch, Legal Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-859-1552, steve@suwa.org Anne Hawke, Senior Press Secretary, Natural Resources Defense Council, 646-823-4518, ahawke@nrdc.org Liam Kelly, Communications Manager, National Parks Conservation Association, […]
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CategoriesBlog
Protect Your Public Lands and Public Voice: Tell Congress to Defend NEPA!
It’s been a wild month. Two weeks ago, the Trump administration finalized its attack on America’s bedrock environmental law—the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Today, SUWA, along with a nationwide […]
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