Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

The Bureau of Land Management announced the change Friday. Earlier this year, the Biden Administration halted all new oil and gas leases but that moratorium was struck down in court.

Biden is changing the country’s bedrock environmental law back to where it was before the Trump Administration. Utah conservationists say that will benefit the state.

At least two counties have passed resolutions opposing President Biden’s Bureau of Land Management pick. They raised concerns about her past connection to a radical environmental group and her stance on grazing.

An off-roading advocacy group is warning campers about road closures on public lands. The move is a response to ongoing travel management planning by the Bureau of Land Management in Utah.

Energy developers and uranium miners are eyeing parts of what once was Bears Ears National Monument, even as President Joe Biden is reviewing the monument for expansion.

Conservation groups are upset by a proposal to drill for oil on public land less than a mile from the western edge of Dinosaur National Monument.

The U.S. Interior Department’s energy leasing review is in full swing, following a call Thursday with a wide range of stakeholders. President Joe Biden requested the review back in January, when he indefinitely paused all leasing on federal public lands.

A study shows a bill to protect millions of acres of public land in Utah would help slow climate change. But it has to get through Congress first.

President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to announce an extended moratorium on oil and gas leasing Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. The ban would apply to all federal public lands and would follow a 60-day pause on new leasing announced last week.

President Donald Trump rolled back much of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, Thursday, saying it will expedite job-creating projects. The…

Listen to this story in this KUER news brief.ST. GEORGE — Lawyers representing the state of Utah and Kane County made their closing arguments in the…

A federal lands agency wants to sell more than three dozen oil and gas leases, and environmental groups are protesting because some potential drilling…