Federal oil and gas leases mired in protests over pollution worries for Utah’s Uinta Basin

Environmental, public health and wilderness advocates warn that Dec. 11 auction of leases on 94,000 acres in eastern Utah threatens to worsen region’s ozone crisis.

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Oilfields of the Uinta Basin southeast of Vernal. seen in 2012. Environmental, public health and wilderness advocates are protesting a Dec. 11 auction by the Bureau of Land Management of oil and gas leases on 94,000 acres in eastern Utah, claiming the leases will worsen the Uinta Basin’s ongoing problems air pollution problems with ozone.

Federal oil and gas leases mired in protests over pollution worries for Utah’s Uinta Basin

Environmental, public health and wilderness advocates warn that Dec. 11 auction of leases on 94,000 acres in eastern Utah threatens to worsen region’s ozone crisis.

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