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SUWA’s Response to President Biden’s Restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments

“President Biden’s restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments will be hailed by generations for protecting some of the nation’s wildest and most culturally significant public lands. It’s hard to describe the relief and joy our members are feeling right now knowing these places and their irreplaceable objects...

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SUWA Statement on CEQ Proposed Revisions to NEPA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Bloch, Legal Director, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org Moab, UT (October 6, 2021) – In response to the Council on Environmental Quality’s draft proposal released this morning to update the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) implementing regulations, which would restore many long-standing policies altered by the Trump...

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Biden administration prepares to auction public lands for oil & gas development

Fossil fuel extraction on public lands accounts for nearly a quarter of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. These climate-altering emissions are wreaking havoc on our natural world, resulting in massive wildfires, extreme drought, and catastrophic flooding events. The Colorado Plateau and Utah’s redrock wilderness are expected to suffer some of...

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