(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s attorney general is seeking some outside help to challenge the Biden Administration in court. The Attorney General’s Office put out a request for bids yesterday seeking qualified law firms that could handle taking a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. Environmental protections at all three monuments had […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Elected officials believe a decision on restoring the boundaries of two Utah national monuments could be coming soon. State lawmakers said this week that they believe the Biden administration will recommend restoring the boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments to their original […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah congressional delegation has requested a meeting with President Joe Biden before he makes his final decision on whether the boundaries of two sprawling national monuments in Utah should be restored. The delegation of Utah Republicans sent a letter to Biden on Wednesday in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made her recommendation about whether to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in Utah. But details on her decision have not been released. A court filing Thursday in a legal battle that began more […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New research shows ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves. Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Utah this week before submitting a review on national monuments in the state. Residents there have both staunchly supported establishing and increasing the size of national monuments, and fiercely rallied against them. Haaland is the latest […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Newly confirmed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is planning to visit Utah next month before submitting a review on whether to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink national monuments in the state, the agency announced Wednesday. Haaland is expected to submit the […]
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 […]
