For Immediate Release, December 22, 2020 Contact: Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 859-1552, steve@suwa.org Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, (646) 823-4518, ahawke@nrdc.org Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2424, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org John Weisheit, Living Rivers, (435) 260-2590, john@livingrivers.org Court Blocks Drilling Set to Begin in Newly Designated Utah Wilderness WASHINGTON— A federal judge today enjoined the Trump administration’s approval of a plan to punch a helium well into the heart of the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness in Utah just two days before Christmas. Road construction was set to begin Wednesday. “Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness is too special to drill,” said Landon Newell, staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. “We’re grateful the court enjoined this ill-conceived project and gave this incomparable landscape a brief reprieve. We’ll be ready for round 2 with the Trump administration and company in early January.”