A recently released report by Headwaters Economics highlights how Utah’s oil and gas industry is thriving and largely recovered from the 2008 recession. The Headwaters Report is consistent with an opinion piece that ran in the Salt Lake Tribune this past Wednesday which notes that despite the rhetoric from state...
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Utah Wilderness News, February 10, 2012
LTEs from Moab praise the Interior Department's Master Leasing Plans
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SUWA Takes On Tar Sands Leasing in Greater Canyonlands and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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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