BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to ease some rules on mining, drilling and grazing across millions of acres in seven U.S. Western states. Judge B. Lynn Winmill said changes adopted by the administration in March likely would cause further declines in […]
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 Monday night means the legal challenges seeking to return […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has sold drilling rights to about 40 square miles (104 square kilometers) of land near the Utah-Colorado border considered archaeologically sensitive to an energy firm. Environmentalists and tribal organizations are protesting a decision announced Wednesday to allow Ayres Energy LLC to develop […]
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 […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A newly appointed Trump administration official who oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West says his past support for selling federal lands is “irrelevant.” Acting Bureau of Land Management Director William Perry Pendley disavowed his longtime advocacy for federal land sales or transfers in an interview with […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has approved a mining project near a river in central Utah to extract a mineral used in fertilizer under heightened pressure from the Trump administration to increase mining of dozens of minerals on American soil. Bureau of Land Management officials held a […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence stepped up pressure on Congress to support the Trump administration’s new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, taking his pitch on Wednesday to voters in a congressional swing district in southern New Mexico. Pence’s office said in a statement that he […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is renewing efforts to promote the Trump administration’s trade deal with Mexico and Canada as he travels to the border state of New Mexico and then Salt Lake City. The Office of the Vice President announced that Pence will talk about […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah says it is withdrawing from the federal family planning program rather than comply with a new Trump administration rule prohibiting participants from referring patients for abortions. The organization joined other affiliates across the country Monday in declining federal funding, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of terrain in the West. The plan that was announced this summer and presented at public open houses, including […]
