The Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, has completed the environmental review for a major Utah coal project, marking the first expedited coal leasing action under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In a press […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Projects affecting the Upper Colorado River Basin will soon benefit from nearly 30-million dollars in new federal funding. Utah is one of the states included in the government effort to improve drought planning across the Basin. Department of Interior officials announced the funding on Tuesday. […]
(Washington, DC) — The U.S. government has completed a renaming project that eliminates the word “squaw” from the names of more than 600 landmarks. The Department of the Interior announced the completion of the project yesterday. The effort began last year as a way to eliminate a word that many […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government is implementing final management plans for two national monuments in Utah that President Donald Trump downsized. The plans ensure lands previously off-limits to energy development will be open to mining and drilling despite pending lawsuits. Casey Hammond of the U. S. Department of […]
