Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Contact: Liam Kelly, National Parks Conservation Association, 213-814-8666, lkelly@npca.org Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991, landon@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT – The Trump administration has released its proposal to open up more than 110,000 acres of public land to oil and gas drilling, most of which lies in southern...
Read More Salt Lake City, UT (March 19, 2020): The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing to offer a massive swath of treasured Utah public lands for oil and gas development. The Washington Post reported on this new development on March 18th. BLM has received more than 230 oil and gas...
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The Trump administration’s rush for “energy dominance” encounters another setback in Utah; BLM forced to reanalyze environmental impacts of oil and gas development For Immediate Release Contact: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991, landon@suwa.org Ann Alexander, Natural Resources Defense Council, 415.875.8243, aalexander@nrdc.org Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303.225.4636, phil_hanceford@tws.org...
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Fourth Time This Year BLM Has Suspended Leases in Utah; Feds Ignored Climate Change, Opened Scenic, Cultural Lands to Fossil Fuel Extraction For Immediate Release Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3991, landon@suwa.org Diana Dascalu-Joffe, Center for Biological Diversity,...
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT (September 12, 2019)— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for failing to consider the climate pollution from 130 oil and gas leases spanning 175,500 acres of public lands in Utah. Today’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, says the Bureau...
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