Anonymous ID: f31ca9 Dec. 26, 2020, 9:55 a.m. No.12184314   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4358

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For Immediate Release, December 11, 2020

 

Contact:

 

Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2414, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org

Liam Kelly, National Parks Conservation Association, (213) 814 8666, lkelly@npca.org

Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians, (303) 437-7663, jnichols@wildearthguardians.org

Caitlin Miller, Earthjustice, (317) 797-4394, cmiller@earthjustice.org

 

Federal Judge Rejects Approval of Federal Oil, Gas Leases in Utah

 

Decision Comes Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban

 

SALT LAKE CITY— A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s plan to lease more than 60,000 acres of public land for fracking in northern Utah’s Uintah Basin, including areas near Dinosaur National Monument, ruling that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law by refusing to consider alternatives to leasing all 59 parcels.

 

“This is a strong rebuke of Trump’s disastrous fracking frenzy across our public lands, which is destroying the climate, wildlife and frontline communities,” said Taylor McKinnon, a senior campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.“President-elect Biden’s ban on new federal fossil fuel leasing can’t come soon enough.”

 

source: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/federal-judge-rejects-approval-federal-oil-gas-leases-utah-2020-12-11/

Anonymous ID: f31ca9 Dec. 26, 2020, 10:02 a.m. No.12184358   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4391

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>biologicaldiversity.org

The Center for Biological Diversity is a nonprofit membership organization known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism. It was founded in 1989 by Kieran Suckling, Peter Galvin, Todd Schulke and Robin Silver.[1] The Center is based in Tucson, Arizona,with its headquarters in the historic Owls club building