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There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments

'Outrageous' Gold Rush-Style Grab of Public Lands To Begin in Less Than 48 Hours

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument

Conservationists, local tribe leaders, Democratic legislators, and even a UN expert decry this "serious attack on indigenous peoples' rights."

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Ignoring Local Tribes and Public Outcry, Trump Carves Up National Monuments for Mining and Drilling

Julia Conley, staff writer

The president announced in Utah that Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante...

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‘Go Home Trump’: Protesters Spell It Out on Utah Capitol Lawn Day Before Trump Attack on National Monuments

- Common Dreams staff

GO HOME TRUMP on the south lawn of the Utah State Capitol, Sunday, December 3, 2017.

On Saturday, thousands of protesters angered by Trump's expected Monday attack...

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Nurse Alex Wubbels calmly showed a police officer her hospital's policy of prohibiting blood draws from unconscious patients. Moments later, the officer attacked and arrested her.

Union Denounces 'Chilling' Assault on Nurse Defending Her Patient from Police

Grand Canyon Pillagers Hope to Harness Trump's Disdain for Natural World

Not Running for Re-Election, Chaffetz Will Be Lame(r) Duck Oversight Chair

Town Halls Become 'Indivisible' Epicenters as Trump Resistance Grows

Whooping cranes fly in Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, Alabama

Could Republican Majority Repeal the Endangered Species Act?

Terry Tempest Williams holds her bidder card at a BLM land lease auction in Utah in February 2016. (Photo:

Feds: Only Those Committed to Destroying Planet Can Bid on Fossil Fuel Leases

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Western States Face Decades-Long Megadroughts

NASA Study Nails Fracking as Source of Massive Methane 'Hot Spot'

Court Blasts Politically Motivated Attack on Planned Parenthood in Utah

As Southwest Burns, Climate Scientists Warn: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Stop "Massive Strip Mining" in Utah's Public Lands: Green Groups to BLM

Utah's New Anti-Abortion Bill Based on Ideology, Not Medical Facts

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Defenders of Wildlife

President Trump Launches Attack on Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments

Sierra Club

Gwich’in Leaders Launch "Protect our Homelands"...

ACLU

ACLU Joins Lawsuit to Defend Confidential Medical Records from Warrantless Federal DEA Searches

Center for Biological Diversity

Groups to Feds: Plan for America’s First Commercial Oil Shale Facility Not in Public Interest

Public Citizen

Utah Officials Violated Firefighters’ Constitutional Rights by Searching Prescription Records Without a Warrant, Public Citizen Tells 10th Circuit

Center for Biological Diversity

100+ Climate Activists Protest BLM Oil, Gas Auction in Utah

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Christopher Brauchli

Romney & Trump: Birds of a Feather

Stephen Trimble

When Trump Guts Two Utah National Monuments Next Week, He'll Trigger a New Conservation War

Robert Borosage

The Presidential Race: The West Weighs in

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