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 […]
Read MoreClimate Lawsuit Targets 130 Oil Leases on Public Lands in Utah
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 […]
Read MoreFor the Third Time in Less Than Three Months, the BLM Recognizes It Violated Law, Pulls Back Oil and Gas Leasing Decisions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Approximately 57,000 acres of remote, wild, and culturally significant public lands temporarily spared from oil and gas development Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org […]
Read MoreBLM Recognizes it Violated Law, Pulls Back Oil & Gas Leasing Decision in Utah’s San Rafael Desert, Dirty Devil Region
Approximately 204,000 acres of remote, wild, and culturally significant public lands temporarily spared from oil and gas development Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org Landon Newell, […]
Read MoreBLM Reconsiders Oil and Gas Leases Following SUWA Appeal
Good news! Following SUWA’s appeal of the BLM’s decision to sell eight oil and gas leases for development at its March 2018 sale, the BLM has reluctantly agreed with SUWA […]
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