Decision finds BLM ignored cumulative impacts and failed to comply with the Monument’s prohibitions on using non-native seed Moab, UT (September 17, 2019) – The U.S. Department of the Interior’s […]
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Climate 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 […]
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Wild Utah Podcast, Episode 7: Your Time is Up!
SUWA Latinx organizer Olivia Juarez speaks with activists Brooke Larsen (UPLIFT) and Eliza Van Dyk (Wasatch Rising Tide) about the protest, and about the intersection between the fight for climate justice and efforts to protect Utah’s remaining wild lands.
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A Plan to Plunder: Trump Administration Releases Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Plan Undermines Standards for National Monument Protections, Ignores Public Opposition and Ongoing Litigation Over Reduced Boundaries ESCALANTE, Utah (August 23, 2019) – Today, local and national groups, businesses and globally-respected scientist organizations, denounced […]
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Wilderness Stewardship Training Draws a Crowd!
Over the weekend, SUWA’s Service Program organized a Wilderness Stewardship Training in Salt Lake City. Forty trainees attended the Saturday session, twenty-four of whom then took part in a training […]
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