Salt Lake City – Efforts from Senator Mike Lee to fast-track an attack on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) have failed. The CRA includes a provision that allows the Senate to pass a “joint resolution of disapproval” targeting an administrative action via a simple majority, but it must act within 60 Senate session days after that action is entered into the Congressional Record. Thursday, June 11, was day 60.
Diné, Pueblo, and allied groups condemn the Trump Administration’s proposal to revoke Public Land Order (PLO) 7923, which withdraws federal minerals from future oil and gas leasing within approximately 10-miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
SALT LAKE CITY – Yesterday, Utah Sierra Club and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) held a press conference with community members speaking out against Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Celeste Maloy’s (R-UT-02) attempt to overturn the Monument Management Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
SALT LAKE CITY — On Tuesday, March 17th, the Utah Sierra Club and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) will host a virtual press call with community members speaking out against Senator Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy’s plan to overturn the Monument Management Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Republicans began the process of overturning the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump has signed a proclamation attempting to allow commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, off the coast of New England.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced his latest pick to run the Bureau of Land Management.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump Administration is moving to break with a legal precedent that could threaten the integrity of national monuments across the country.
With little fanfare, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a legal opinion yesterday concluding presidents have the authority to revoke national monument designations made by their predecessors.
SALT LAKE CITY — On Tuesday, January 14, the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service finalized a Resource Management Plan for Bears Ears National Monument. The plan marks a historic achievement for implementing Tribal collaborative management to preserve one of the country's largest national monuments.
BURNEY, Calif. -- Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler (both D-Calif.) announced they will introduce legislation to establish a new Sáttítla National Monument in the national forests of northeast California. Padilla and Butler were also joined by Rep. Adam Schiff in a letter calling on the Biden Administration to use the Antiquities Act to permanently protect these lands.
Phoenix, AZ – Today, Sierra Club celebrated the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
UTAH – On Friday, March 8, 2024, five Tribal Nations including the Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Zuni Tribe, Hopi Tribe, and the Navajo Nation, collaborated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S.