Conservation Groups and Oil and Gas Company Announce Historic Agreement to Protect Desolation Canyon Area
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Today, a coalition of conservation organizations announced they have reached an historic agreement with the Bill Barrett Corporation, a Denver-based oil and gas company. The West Tavaputs agreement ensures that the Desolation Canyon stretch of the Green River will be protected from the sight and sound of industrial development even during the development and extraction of substantial natural gas reserves that Barrett currently has under lease.

Settlement Reinstates Common Sense Checks and Balances
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Drilling in Special Places Will Be Appropriately Scrutinized While Categorical Exclusions Can Still be Used in Manner Intended by Congress

Historic Preservation and Conservation Groups Settle Suit over BLM Approvals of Natural Gas Wells in Nine Mile Canyon Region
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
BLM Agrees to Change National Policy and Restrict Use of Loophole That Led to Drilling

BLM Plans Destruction of Old Growth Trees in National Monument and Proposed Wilderness
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
A coalition of national and local conservation groups has called on the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") to halt immediately the planned destruction of old-growth pinyon and juniper trees on over 50,000 acres in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and surrounding lands, including those proposed for wilderness protection in America's Red Rock Wilderness Act.

Conservationists Applaud Proposed Oil and Gas Reforms
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a series of reforms to the federal oil and gas leasing program designed to provide greater environmental oversight over oil and gas lease offerings, more public involvement, increased certainty for industry, and better return to American taxpayers for energy development on federal lands.