Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Did you hear the big news? President Biden just restored Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments to their original boundaries, protecting more than 2 million acres of Utah’s redrock wilderness! At the signing ceremony at the White House, President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reiterated the importance of...
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MEDIA ADVISORY FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 at 11:30 AM MT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Steve Bloch, Legal Director, 801-859-1552, steve@suwa.org Event Contact: Dave Pachecho, Utah Organizer, 801-949-3099, dave@suwa.org WHO: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance WHAT: “Utahns Support Monuments Restoration” Rally and...
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“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...
Read More 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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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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