SWITCH: Mobile | ePaper | Subscribe

Homes Rentals Jobs Autos Contests

I-15 rollover in Clearfield injures 2

Sierra Club

Judge rules Forest Service must stop development on motorized trails

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 7:25am

OGDEN -- A federal judge ruled this week that the Ogden Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service has to stop development on motorized trails and redo parts of a 2007 travel plan that control motorized travel.

Courts, Sierra Club, Trails, U.S. Forest Service, Utah, Environmental concerns Read more Comments

Ogden council to hear streetcar input tonight

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 12:42am

OGDEN -- The great Ogden streetcar debate is set to heat up again. The Ogden City Council will hold a special fact-finding work session tonight to discuss the viability of a streetcar project in the city.

Economic development, Economic growth, Event, Federal Funding, Land development, Mass transit, McKay-Dee Hospital, Redevelopment, Sierra Club, Streetcar, Streetcars, Study, Transportation, Utah, Utah Transit Authority, Weber State University, History Read more Comments

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.”

Business, Energy, Environment, BLM, Bryce Canyon National Park, Coal mining, Court, Sierra Club, Southern Utah, Strip mining, Utah, Environmental concerns, Environmentalists Read more Comments

Sierra Club leader departs amid discontent over group's direction

Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 6:27pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- The leader of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most influential environmental groups, has stepped down after 18 years amid discontent that the group founded by 19th-century wilderness evangelist John Muir has strayed from the woods and into to corporate boardrooms and has compromised its core principals.

Environment, Sierra Club, National Read more Comments

Sierra Club ends suit with Ogden

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, June 3, 2011 - 11:20pm

OGDEN -- The Sierra Club said Friday it has reached a settlement with the city in a four-year legal battle over access to government records regarding a once-proposed and controversial gondola project.

City Government, GRAMA, Lawsuit, News, Ogden City, Sierra Club, Utah Read more Comments