Two conservation organizations filed suit today in federal district court in Utah challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s highly destructive motorized vehicle travel plan for the San Rafael Desert
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SUWA Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order on the Climate Crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3991, landon@suwa.org Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT (January 27, 2021) – President Biden today issued an Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which, among other things,...
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Supreme Court Declines to Review Court Decision on Contentious Public Lands Litigation
State of Utah’s sprawling litigation claiming more than 12,000 dirt paths and stream bottoms as “highways” threatens redrock wilderness across the state Contacts: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303.815.3158, phil_hanceford@tws.org Brian Fletcher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Clinic, 917.453.9477, bfletcher@stanford.edu Salt Lake...
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Lawsuit Launched Over Trump Plan to Accelerate Clearcutting, Herbicide Spraying, Fuel Breaks Across Six Western States
Contacts: Scott Lake, Center for Biological Diversity, (802) 299-7495, slake@biologicaldiversity.org Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (435) 259-5440, kya@suwa.org Paul Ruprecht, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 421-4637, paul@westernwatersheds.org Connie Howard, Sierra Club, Toiyabe Chapter, (775) 224-3916, constancehoward58@gmail.com Lawsuit Launched Over Trump Plan to Accelerate Clearcutting, Herbicide Spraying, Fuel Breaks Across Six...
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Court Blocks Drilling Set to Begin in Newly Designated Utah Wilderness
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3991, landon@suwa.org Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 859-1552, steve@suwa.org Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, (646) 823-4518, ahawke@nrdc.org Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2424, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org John Weisheit, Living Rivers, (435)-260-2590, john@livingrivers.org Washington, D.C. (December 22,...
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