Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 at 11:30 AM MT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Steve Bloch, Legal Director, 801-859-1552, steve@suwa.org Event Contact: Dave Pachecho, Utah Organizer, 801-949-3099, dave@suwa.org WHO: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance WHAT: “Utahns Support Monuments Restoration” Rally and...
Read More FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Bloch, Legal Director, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org Moab, UT (October 6, 2021) – In response to the Council on Environmental Quality’s draft proposal released this morning to update the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) implementing regulations, which would restore many long-standing policies altered by the Trump...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Neal Clark, Wildlands Director, 435-259-7090, neal@suwa.org Judi Brawer, Wildlands Attorney, 435-355-0716, judi@suwa.org Moab, UT (September 21, 2021) – More than a dozen conservation organizations based in Utah and the surrounding region sent a letter today to the Bureau of Land Management (“the Bureau”), asking the agency...
Read More Bending over backwards to help company, agency sets ball in motion to allow drilling within ½ mile of national monument; within greater sage-grouse priority habitat and wilderness-caliber lands FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991, landon@suwa.org Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org Liam Kelly,...
Read More FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jen Ujifusa, Legislative Director, jen@suwa.org Washington, DC (May 11, 2021) – Yesterday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) reintroduced S. 1535, America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, the seminal legislation that would protect 8.4 million acres of public lands in Utah as wilderness. The wild and expansive lands proposed...
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