A conservation group can seek details from the Trump Administration on whether it used the recommendations of a disbanded committee to craft policies on oil, gas and coal extraction. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy says there is “a significant question” on whether the administration followed the advice of the Royalty […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmental groups are challenging the U.S. government’s decision to reopen a large swath of southern Utah’s badlands to off-road vehicles. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and two other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing ATV traffic will harm the endangered plants. The lands had […]
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 […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho and Utah are seeking to intervene on the side of the federal government after four conservation groups asked a judge to immediately halt drilling, mining and other activities to protect sage grouse habitat in seven Western states. The two states filed documents in U.S. District […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups is objecting to the U.S. government’s approval for the early stages of an oil shale project near the Utah-Colorado border by a company with ties to Estonia. It would become the first commercial-scale oil shale development in the United States […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Friday to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, reopening a lengthy battle over the predator species. Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the U.S. […]
