SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to dismiss lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a 2017 decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in Utah. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan’s written decisions issued late Monday night means the legal challenges seeking to […]
BLANDING, Utah (AP) — A Utah county paid high fees to an out-of-state law firm to sue the federal government in a case involving a canyon right of way. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday that JW Howard Attorneys billed San Juan County more than $360,000 from 2016 to 2018 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government’s final management plan for lands in and around a Utah national monument that President Donald Trump downsized doesn’t include many new protections for the cliffs, canyons, waterfalls and arches found there, but it does include a few more safeguards than were in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government is unveiling its final management plan for a national monument on tribal lands home to ancient cliff dwellings and other artifacts in Utah that was significantly downsized by President Donald Trump. The Bureau of Land Management’s plan for the Bears Ears National […]
CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado-based company is asking for permission to ship radioactive material from eastern Europe to a uranium mill in Utah. The Cortez Journal reported Monday that Energy Fuels Resources submitted an application in April to the Utah Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control to allow the White […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A newly unveiled advisory committee that will help make management decisions for a downsized national monument in southern Utah has become the latest flashpoint in a long-running debate over lands considered sacred to Native Americans as monument supporters cry foul about being left off the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A southeastern Utah county commission that used to be a vocal opponent of the Bears Ears National Monument created by President Barack Obama is switching sides in the debate now that it’s controlled by Democrats. The San Juan County commission filed a notice Tuesday in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As Democrats in Congress prepare to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s review of 27 national monuments, most recommendations made by ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke remain unfinished. They are seemingly stuck on the backburner as other matters consume the White House. Trump acted quickly on recommendations to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A conservation organization has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior over oil and gas leases offered in southeast Utah, claiming the parcels are packed with ancient cultural relics. Advocates for the West filed the suit Wednesday in federal court in Utah on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawsuits brought by conservation, tribal and paleontological groups challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink two Utah national monuments will remain in a court in Washington, D.C., after a judge on Monday denied the U.S. government’s request to move the cases to […]
