* SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE * For Immediate Release: June 22, 2017 Contact: Landon Newell, Staff Attorney Tel: 801-428-3991 Acting in lockstep with the Trump administration’s relentless onslaught against federal public lands, the BLM is proposing to offer at the agency’s December 2017 oil and gas lease sale 79 parcels...
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Proposed Oil and Gas Leases Threaten San Rafael Swell and Dinosaur National Monument
Acting in lockstep with the Trump administration’s relentless onslaught against federal public lands, the BLM is proposing to offer at the agency’s December 2017 oil and gas lease sale 79 parcels for leasing and development on approximately 100,000 acres of federal public lands in eastern and central Utah. Included in...
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Utah Counties’ Closed Door Meetings with Zinke and Others Violates Utah Open and Public Meetings Act
San Juan, Kane and Garfield County Commissions held a series of unlawful meetings over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 15, 2017 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 David Reymann, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, 801.257.7939 In response to a series of recent,...
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Zinke Vows to Eviscerate Bears Ears
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s interim report on the fate of Bears Ears National Monument was released yesterday—and it isn’t good. As expected, Zinke recommends that President Trump dramatically shrink the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument—though he doesn’t say specifically by how much, or where. Instead, he punted the details...
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SUWA Statement on Secretary Zinke’s Interim Report on Bears Ears
For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017 Contact: Mathew Gross, (435) 259-4316 Today Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued an interim report that signaled his desire to greatly reduce the Bears Ears National Monument. A final report is expected in August. The following statement is from Mathew Gross, Media Director of the...
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