A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

Lawmakers from Utah have commandeered an obscure law to unravel protections for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, potentially delivering on a Trump administration goal of undoing protections for public conservation lands across the country. This week two Utah Republicans, Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy, introduced a “joint resolution of disapproval” in the Senate […]