Description The Utah Grassroots Organizer spends approximately 2/3rds of their time working to advance the goal of building and maintaining cohesive statewide support for SUWA’s congressional and administrative efforts to protect Utah’s wilderness lands. The remaining 1/3rd time is spent maintaining and expanding SUWA’s social media outreach through the use of...
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Lawsuit Launched Against 800,000-acre Domestic Oil Shale, Tar Sands Plan
Federal Plan Threatens Land, Water, Wildlife and Greenhouse Gas Emissions as Carbon Dioxide Nears Dangerous 400 ppm Milestone A coalition of conservation groups today filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the Bureau of Land Management under the Endangered Species Act for allocating more than 800,000 acres of federal...
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Tell Secretary Jewell to stand up to Utah’s public land grab
Please ask Secretary Jewell to stand up to the nonsense coming out of Utah and help safeguard our public lands.
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Educators tell Utah’s Governor – Safeguard, don’t seize, our public lands
Educators, parents and students spoke out against Governor Herbert’s land grab in Utah today, united by a concern for Utah’s children and public lands. Rejecting the claim that state control of federal lands could benefit education, speakers urged the Governor to “safeguard – not to seize – Utah’s public lands.”
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Wasting Time and Money
Last Monday, a federal judge blocked implementation of a new Utah law that would have prohibited BLM and Forest Service employees from enforcing state laws anywhere in Utah.
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