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Suit Filed Over All-Terrain Vehicles in Utah Recreation Zone

Suit Filed Over All-Terrain Vehicles in Utah Recreation Zone

ST. GEORGE, UTAH (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior has been sued over plans to allow all-terrain vehicles in a recreation area in Utah that conservation groups say would be destructive, officials said. The National Parks Conservation Association filed the lawsuit on Jan. 19, demanding the department prohibit the vehicles in […]

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APNewsBreak: Coming to national park trails: electric bikes

APNewsBreak: Coming to national park trails: electric bikes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Motorized electric bicycles may soon be humming onto serene trails in national parks and other public lands nationwide. It’s part of a new Trump administration order — hotly opposed by many outdoors groups — that will allow the so-called e-bikes on every federal trail where a regular […]

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Coal project near Bryce Canyon National Park draws lawsuit

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmental organizations are suing the Trump administration over the approval a coal-mining project near a national park in southern Utah. A coalition of groups including the National Parks Conservation Association filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Utah. They argue that the approval violated […]

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Suit challenges drilling on public land in Colorado, Utah

Suit challenges drilling on public land in Colorado, Utah

DENVER (AP) — Environmental groups have asked a judge to overturn the sale of drilling rights on public land in Colorado and Utah, saying the Trump administration didn’t consider the potential threat to public health and the environment. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Denver federal court seeks to reverse oil […]

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