Oil and Gas Development

Good news: Controversial Leases Pulled from September Sale!

Aug 13th, 2020 Written by Jen Ujifusa

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 near Canyonlands, Arches, and Capitol Reef National Parks, including significant landscapes that would be protected within America’s Red Rock Wilderness...

Climate Change

Conservation Groups Praise the BLM’s Withdrawal of Oil and Gas Leases Near Utah National Parks

Aug 12th, 2020 Written by suwa

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, 213-814-8666, lkelly@npca.org Emily Thompson, Associate Director of Engagement, Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, 202-758-3936, Emily_Thompson@protectnps.org Salt Lake City, UT...

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Tell the BLM to Drop Its Massive Lease Sale Near Utah’s National Parks

Jun 29th, 2020 Written by Landon Newell

As you may have heard by now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to open up more than 114,000 acres of wild lands in Utah—including more than 86,000 acres in southeastern Utah—to oil and gas drilling as part of its upcoming September lease sale. If this massive lease sale...

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Tell Utah Governor Herbert: Say No to Drilling Near Utah’s National Parks

Jun 16th, 2020 Written by suwa

As expected, the Trump administration has gone all-in on its plans to flood southern Utah’s redrock country with oil and gas development. If Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) gets its way during its September 2020 oil and gas lease sale, new oil and gas wells could appear at the...

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Call to Action: Write an LTE on Drilling Near National Parks

Jun 15th, 2020 Written by Terri Martin

Speak out against climate-damaging oil and gas leasing near Arches and Canyonlands National Park The Trump administration is proposing to sacrifice our national parks and exacerbate the climate crisis by leasing a massive swath of treasured public lands near Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef National Parks for oil and gas...