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America Can Have Both Utah Wilderness and Affordable Heating Bills

January 12, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
archesnationalpark, canyonlandsnationalpark, energyefficiency, midnightrules, naturalgas, naturalgasdrilling, obama, oildrilling, oilleases, redford, redrockcountry, utah, utahwilderness, weatherizing

Last month, NRDC Trustee Robert Redford boldly took a stand against the Bush administration's cynical efforts to take Utah landscapes out of public ownership and auction them off to private industry. Redford met with almost uniform praise for championing these...continued→

Why Bush's Last-Minute Land Giveaway in Utah Matters

November 21, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
archesnationalpark, biogems, BLM, canyonlandsnationalpark, cleanenergy, greenjobs, midnightrules, naturalgas, oildrilling, redrockcountry, utah, wildlands

I thought I couldn't be shocked any more. After all, the past eight years have taught me that despite the availability of clean energy technology, the Bush administration will always place oil and gas drilling above all other options.  But...continued→