Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Shortly after the Trump administration took office in 2017, SUWA filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Interior and Justice Departments seeking records related to several then-pending lawsuits, including a lawsuit brought by an oil and gas trade group (Western Energy Alliance) which challenged Obama-era oil and...
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Bill is a “Big Step Backwards” for Conservation and Wilderness on Public Lands in Emery County, Utah FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jen Ujifusa, 202-266-0473, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance jen@suwa.org Virginia Cramer, Sierra Club, 804-519-8449, Virginia.cramer@sierraclub.org Anne Hawke, 202-513-6263, Natural Resources Defense Council ahawke@nrdc.org Washington, DC (May 9, 2018) — Today,...
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Today, the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee “marked up” Rep. Rob Bishop’s terrible Public Lands Initiative (PLI)—the bill that seeks to roll back federal land protections, unleash a fossil fuel bonanza, and give away lands belonging to all Americans to the State of Utah. As if that isn’t reckless...
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Rep. Rob Bishop just held a hearing on his Public Lands Initiative (PLI), bringing his disastrous vision for the management of Utah’s spectacular public lands to the chambers of Congress. Testifying against the bill were representatives of the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal...
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Congress is back from recess and Representatives Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz are resuming their legislative push to advance the long anticipated, immensely destructive Utah Public Lands Initiative (PLI).
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