Robert Redford

‘Tis the season for year-end campaign donation drives and candidates are pulling out the big guns. Robert Redford sent out a note on behalf of Gov. Bill Ritter today and the Robert Redford of Colorado politics, former U.S. senator and present-day blogger Gary Hart, made a pitch for Sen. Michael Bennet.
Redford says Ritter [...]

Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student who last December allegedly won 13 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases for $1.7 million he never intended to pay, came up with a unique defense in U.S. District in Salt Lake City Monday: “Global warming made me do it.”
Federal judge Dee Benson was having none [...]

A last-minute Bush administration bid to allow oil and gas drilling on nearly 8,000 acres of public land near Arches and Canyonlands national parks in southeastern Utah was permanently blocked by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday, much to the relief of environmental groups fighting the move since late last year.
A favorite desert recreation haven for [...]

Project New West is hosting a summit through Friday designed to provide leaders with tools to better reach voters in the West. The two-year-old company explains its mission as providing “subscribers with a roadmap to understand the political, demographic, and issue landscape…”