The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently held a series of public hearings in Utah regarding whether it should open 2 million acres of land in CO, WY, and UT for oil shale leasing and development and an additional 430,000 acres for tar sands. It is now accepting public comment...
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Testimony of Karen Shepherd, Former Member of Congress, on the Oil Shale Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
Since I grew up in southern and eastern Utah, I have a very special feeling for the lands that oil shale and tar sands development in Utah would disturb.
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Agreement Reached on Protecting Portions of the Proposed White River Wilderness
In August 2006, fresh out of law school, I came to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). One of the first issues I began working on involved challenging oil and gas development that threatened the proposed White River wilderness.
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Congressional Western Caucus Uses Fiction, Not Fact, to Attack Obama Administration
Last Friday afternoon the “Congressional Western Caucus” – a group of Republican lawmakers from the west (or who are “western” in spirit) – issued a press release attacking the Obama […]
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Governor Herbert got it wrong: protecting wilderness helps Utah school children
Tuesday’s hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee regarding the Obama Administration’s Wild Lands policy generated more than its share of misinformation, misleading statements, and invented facts and figures. Case […]
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