Terray Sylvester
PROTEST AND PROVOCATION
The 2010s were marked by growing tensions across the West, as right-wing organizations rebelled against the person and policies of President Barack Obama, and a diverse coalition of liberal-minded activists came together to fight extractive energy projects, climate change, and racial and economic injustice.
Galvanized by the election of our first African American president and connected by new social media tools, hundreds of right-wing protesters descended on the Nevada ranch of Cliven Bundy in 2014. Bundy had already made a name for himself for refusing to pay over $1 million in grazing fees for his use of federal lands. Two years later, an armed militia led by Bundy’s son, Ammon, seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in eastern Oregon, demanding that public lands managed by the federal government be turned over to the states. That conflict lasted 40 days and resulted in the death of one militia member, numerous arres
Republicans still embrace the power of the ex-president’s agenda to galvanize voters and drive turnout.
By Daniel McCarthy
Mr. McCarthy has been a political editor and commentator for 18 years and has written extensively about conservatism, populism and the Trump presidency.
March 1, 2021
Credit.Mark Peterson/Redux, for The New York Times
The Donald Trump era isn’t over for the Republican Party. He is the party’s kingmaker, and two impeachments and a re-election defeat have not quelled Republican voters’ enthusiasm for him. As no less a critic of the ex-president than Senator Mitt Romney has acknowledged, he will be the party’s presumptive front-runner if he chooses to run for president again.
Talia Boyd: Who is really listening to uranium-impacted communities?
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Energy Fuels Resources, which operates the only conventional uranium mill in the United States near Blanding, in San Juan County, Utah, June 24, 2020. The plant applied for a permit to reprocess 660 tons of radioactive powder stored at the Silmet rare metals plant in Sillame, Estonia, more than 5,000 miles away, for its uranium content in 2020.
By Talia Boyd | Special to The Tribune
| March 1, 2021, 6:18 p.m.
As our communities struggle through a global pandemic, the company that owns the White Mesa uranium mill continues to disregard the voices of those of us most impacted by the uranium industry’s pollution with rhetoric of new, safer technology.
Navajo Group Not Decided On Bears Ears Visitors Center
Rep. Doug Owens, D-Millcreek, and Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, spoke at a meeting in Monument Valley over the weekend about a bill they are co-sponsoring to
create a visitor center for Bears Ears National Monument. They presented it to Utah Diné Bikeyah, a Navajo-led group that supports restoration of the monument. Former San Juan County Commissioner Mark Maryboy is on the group’s board, and said they haven’t taken a position on the bill yet. “It sounded like everyone was on board at the meeting,” he said. “But I spoke to some other tribes and they have some concerns because the monument has not been re-established.” The bill is scheduled to be heard in a state Senate committee Tuesday morning.
Fri, 02/26/2021
LAWRENCE Legal scholar Justin Pidot will explore the law and policy surrounding natural resources law topics when he delivers the Distinguished Public Lands Lecture at the University of Kansas School of Law this spring.
Pidot will present “Protecting Sacred Lands and the Bears Ears National Monument” at 4:30 p.m. March 9 via Zoom. The lecture is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
Pidot is a professor of law and the co-director of the environmental law program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Pidot has recently been appointed general counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He will make remarks in his personal capacity as a scholar and not as a representative of the federal government.