| Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Utah Newsletter for Sunday October 20, 2024 ( 3 items ) |
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Chip Mellor, Institute for Justice Visionary Cofounder and Former President, Has Passed Away
ARLINGTON, Virginia, Oct. 15 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2024:
n Friday, October 11, America lost one of the most significant civil liberties pioneers of the past 40 years: William "Chip" Mellor--the founding president and recent board chairman of the Institute for Justice, a national, public interest law firm--died at his home in Moab, Utah, after a battle with leukemia.
Mellor's philosophically and tactically consistent approach to protecting t
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Environmental and Public Health Groups File Brief Opposing Utah Oil Train's U.S. Supreme Court Appeal
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 18 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release:
Environmental and public health groups defended the nation's landmark environmental law in a brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the law's scope.
Utah's Seven County Infrastructure Coalition and a Utah railway company are asking the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision tossing out the approval of an 88-mile railway through the Uinta
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National Parks Conservation Association: Bears Ears Makes History With Release of Proposed Management Plan in Collaboration With Five Tribes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release:
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"This plan marks historic progress, incorporating Tribal collaboration into the care and stewardship of this critical landscape"-Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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The Biden administration in collaboration with five Native American Tribes proposed a first-of-its-kind resource management plan for Bears Ears National Monument in Utah that incorporates Traditional Ecological a
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