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Plan allows drilling, grazing near national monument in Utah

Plan allows drilling, grazing near national monument in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new U.S. government management plan unveiled Friday clears the way for coal mining and oil and gas drilling on land that used to be off limits as part of a sprawling national monument in Utah before President Donald Trump downsized the protected area two […]

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APNewsBreak: US government issues final Utah monument plan

APNewsBreak: US government issues final Utah monument plan

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 […]

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Utah badlands reopened to off-road vehicles spurs lawsuit

Utah badlands reopened to off-road vehicles spurs lawsuit

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 […]

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US government issues final management plan for Bears Ears

US government issues final management plan for Bears Ears

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 […]

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The Latest: Agency may move, bring jobs to 3 Western states

The Latest: Agency may move, bring jobs to 3 Western states

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on Bureau of Land Management headquarters moving from Washington to Colorado (all times local): 7:35 p.m. A spokesman for Utah Republican Congressman Rob Bishop says Colorado, Nevada and Utah could each gain about 50 federal employees as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management shifts its […]

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Feds aim to corral 800 wild horses from eastern Nevada range

Feds aim to corral 800 wild horses from eastern Nevada range

ELY, Nev. (AP) — Federal officials say they plan to begin rounding up as many as 800 wild horses from vast range in eastern Nevada to reduce what land managers call damaging overpopulation. The Bureau of Land Management says the operation is scheduled to begin Tuesday in a public land study area […]

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New climate study ordered for Colorado, Utah energy leases

New climate study ordered for Colorado, Utah energy leases

DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials must consider climate change effects from leasing about 250 square miles (648 sq. kilometers) of public lands in Colorado and Utah for oil and gas drilling, under a federal court ruling issued Wednesday. The order from U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington follows a […]

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US says Trump coal moves hasten but don’t increase emissions

US says Trump coal moves hasten but don’t increase emissions

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration’s decision to lift a moratorium on coal sales from public lands could hasten the release of more than 5 billion tons of greenhouse gases, but officials concluded Wednesday it would make little difference in overall U.S. climate emissions. That conclusion from the Bureau […]

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BLM seeks vandals who defaced famous archaeological site

BLM seeks vandals who defaced famous archaeological site

WASHINGTON CITY, Utah (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of vandals who spray-painted graffiti at an important southern Utah archaeological site. The agency announced the reward Monday. Officials learned through social media that a popular mesa and sacred […]

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Scott Sommerdorf   |  The Salt Lake Tribune
Some of the tailings from oil shale on Enefit American Oil's White River mine on BLM land in eastern Uintah county, Wednesday, August 7, 2013.

Conservationists sue over oil shale plan in eastern Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Several environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government’s approval of the early stages of an oil shale project near the Utah-Colorado border. The lawsuit filed Thursday by a coalition including Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity challenges the Bureau of Land Management’s […]

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