On January 19 I argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in a case brought by SUWA and our partners challenging a series of illegal BLM decisions in the Greater Canyonlands region and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Threatened by encroaching energy development
These are the sights and sounds from an oil and gas drill rig on state lands only about 6 miles from the picturesque Arches National Park.
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What ifs and if onlys: Anti-wilderness claims just don’t add up
A hearing on tax relief programs in counties with abundant federal land turned into yet another soap-box rap session for anti-wilderness representatives today.
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SUWA FILES ADMINISTRATIVE CHALLENGE TO GASCO OIL WELLS
On Tuesday, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) filed a petition for a stay and administrative challenge to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) approval of two Gasco Production Company-proposed oil wells in the Riverbend area of Utah’s Uinta Basin.
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Environmental Justice and the Uinta Basin
The fair and equal application of the law appears to have become more of a quaint theory than a reality when it comes to air pollution in the Uinta Basin.
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