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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 of public lands in Utah.   Today’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, says the Bureau...

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Avenues Street Fair

Stop by the SUWA redrock activism booth at this year’s Avenues Street Fair. The Avenues Street Fair began in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1970s as a remodeling tool exchange. It expanded into a home tour event to see everyone’s handiwork with the borrowed tools, and eventually became a...

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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 the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) release of management plans for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as another step toward undermining...

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