November 19, 2024 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUWA Statement on Senator Lee’s selection to lead Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – 11.19.24

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org

Salt Lake City, UT – Today, it was announced that Senator Mike Lee was selected to lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the 119th Congress. Below is a statement from Travis Hammill, SUWA DC Director. 

“Senator Lee’s elevation to chairman of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee is a direct threat to America’s public lands. With his radical MAGA policy positions of doubling down on fossil fuels and denying that climate change poses an immediate threat to the nation’s well-being, coupled with his work to undo the very concept of America’s public lands, Senator Lee is uniquely and distinctly unqualified for this leadership post,” said Travis Hammill, SUWA DC Director. “He has been particularly critical of popular public lands protections for treasured places like Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments, highlighting how he’s out of step with the importance of these places to Americans.”

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters from around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards this world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org.