According to The Wilderness Society's email newsletter, Ken Salazar, the new Interior Secretary, has canceled the lease sale of Utah's wilderness to oil and gas companies. If you recall, Robert Redford reported in an email, on behalf of NRDC, that a federal judge had blocked the last minute deal Bush tried to make before exiting the White House. That lease deal would have negatively impacted 110,000 acres of Redrock Wilderness in Utah, but Mr. Salazar has canceled the transaction. See the article, "Good News for Utah’s Redrock Wilderness," from January 21, 2009 for more information on this.
http://wilderness.org/content/department-interior-cancels-controversial-leases
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