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Environmentalists say Utah road dispute costly

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 1:09pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance says thousands of roads Utah officials are trying to claim through a federal lawsuit could threaten wildlife habitat and national parks.

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Lawyers say Utah activist being punished in prison

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 2:55pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Lawyers for an environmental activist convicted of disrupting a federal oil-and-gas auction say the man has been put into isolation at a federal prison because of an unidentified congressman's complaint.

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Nancy Ann Taylor

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 7:38pm

Nancy Ann Taylor, born February 18, 1958, in Ogden, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Roger & Taylor Funeral Home in Tremonton. In lieu of gifts and flowers, please donate to World Vision (www.worldvisiongifts.org). See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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This undated image shows a wolf in Montana. Officials in Idaho are considering deploying federal sharpshooters in helicopters across the north-central part of the state in the coming weeks to kill up to 75 wolves they say are threatening elk near the Montana border. (Photo courtesy of Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks)

Killing of wolves from air in Idaho draws fire

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:58am

SEATTLE -- For years, the federal agencies that helped the U.S. wolf population recover under the Endangered Species Act have also quietly killed hundreds of wolves that threaten livestock or prized game.

They've even taken to the skies -- and are considering doing so again.

Officials in Idaho said Wednesday they would consider deploying federal sharpshooters in helicopters across north-central Idaho in the coming weeks to kill up to 75 wolves threatening elk near the Montana border.

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The Sierra Club is threatening another lawsuit in a so-far futile effort to defeat Utah and federal approvals for this vast strip mine near Alton, about 10 miles from Bryce Canyon National Park. (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance/The Associated Press)

Strip mine near Bryce Canyon set to expand

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 11:29pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The Sierra Club is threatening another lawsuit to turn back a strip mine at the backdoor to Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park.

“It would be like putting a strip mine next to Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon. People would be outraged,” Bruce Hamilton, deputy executive director for the Sierra Club, said Wednesday. “We’re trying to make this a national issue.”

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(JEFF MCINTOSH/The Associated Press) This Sept. 19, 2011 aerial photo shows a tar sands mine facility near Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. Environmentalists hoping to block a proposed underground oil pipeline that would snake 1,700 miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico have pinned their hopes on an unlikely ally _ the conservative state of Nebraska where opposition to Keystone XL pipeline has risen steadily since the project was proposed three years ago. Public hearings will start Sept. 27, in Lincoln on the 16-inch steel pipe that if built would carry oil extracted from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma to refineries in Texas.

Oil pipeline opponents pin hopes on Nebraska

Grant Schulte The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:41am

LINCOLN, Neb. — Environmentalists hoping to block a proposed underground oil pipeline that would snake 1,700 miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico have pinned their hopes on an unlikely ally — the conservative state of Nebraska.

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(JIM URQUHART/The Associated Press) Environmental activists Chelsea Satre (left) and Julianne Waters sit in the middle of Main Street and block the light rail track after Tim DeChristopher is sentenced at the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. Twenty-six people were arrested after they used zip ties to chain themselves together.

26 protesting DeChristopher activist case may be charged

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 12:01am

SALT LAKE CITY -- City prosecutors on Wednesday considered criminal charges for 26 people arrested after they blocked traffic and the light rail downtown while protesting the sentencing of an environmental activist who thwarted a 2008 government auction of oil and gas leases.

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(JIM URQUHART/The Associated Press) Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher is surrounded by media as he arrives to the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. He was sentenced to two years in prison on federal charges for bidding up prices at an auction of land leases that he couldn't pay for.

DeChristopher gets 2 years in prison for thwarting oil and gas lease auction

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 6:32pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah environmental activist has been sentenced to two years in prison for derailing a 2008 government auction of oil and gas leases near two national parks.

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Utah environmental activist's sentence could be less than maximum

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 11:32pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors don’t like the sentencing recommendations made for an environmental activist convicted of interfering with a government auction of oil and gas leases near two of Utah’s national parks.

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Groups file letter against water for Utah nuke plant

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 1:52pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Environmental groups from four states are filing a letter criticizing a request from the owners of a proposed nuclear power plant in Utah to use water from the Green River.

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No parade permit for Utah global warming activists

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 3:36pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah federal judge has refused to direct a state transportation agency to issue a parade permit to a global warming activist group.

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New wolf rules in Rockies challenged

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 1:11pm

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Environmental groups are challenging as unconstitutional Congressional legislation that took gray wolves off the endangered species list.

Two lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday, as control over more than 1,300 wolves was turned over to state authorities in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Utah.

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(TAMI MARTINEZ/Standard-Examiner) A new Pew Environment Group report says about 950 claims have reportedly been made within five miles of the boundaries of Arches (seen here) and Canyonlands national parks in Utah, nearly all since 2005.

Report: Mining claims could mar national park and wilderness area borders -- including in Utah

Los Angeles Times, Neela Banerjee

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 11:34pm

WASHINGTON -- Mining claims threaten to mar the borders of 10 iconic national parks and wilderness areas, particularly the Grand Canyon, where uranium claims have increased 2,000 percent since 2004, according to a new report by the Pew Environment Group.

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Wolf protections to stay in Utah under settlement

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 5:54pm

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Key lawmakers in the political skirmish over gray wolves in the West say they will continue their efforts to lift federal protections for the predators, despite a proposed settlement between environmentalists and the government.

The settlement is pending approval in federal court. It would lift wolf protections in Idaho and Montana, but keep them at least temporarily in Wyoming Utah, Washington and Oregon.

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