National Monument Controversy

The latest Utah news form Friday evening, Oct. 22, 2021.

The latest Utah news from Wednesday evening, June 9, 2021.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to review a long list of changes former President Donald Trump made to environmental regulations and the management of public lands, as well as his reduction of national monuments.

Legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments may move forward, now that a federal judge has…

Updated 11:30 p.m. MDT 9/30/19Meeting in Utah for the first time ever, the All Pueblo Council of Governors passed resolutions last week calling for the…

The Trump administration is responsible for the largest reduction of federally protected land in U.S. history after it shrunk two national monuments in…

The power struggle over the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments continued Thursday in Washington, as supporters and opponents told…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The new chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee said he expects Congress to investigate the Trump administration’s decision…

A judge ruled Monday that a federal court in Washington, D.C. — not Salt Lake City — will decide whether it was legal for the Trump administration to…

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management appears to be backing away from proposals that could call for selling land parcels removed from the Grand…

Separate bills are active in Congress to alternately strengthen or weaken the law used to create national monuments.House Democrats have introduced a bill…

A bill encouraging that the creation of national monuments in Utah be decided by Congress, instead of the President, cleared the legislature on…