facebook-pixel

Did Interior break the law in eyeing oil, gas leases in the former Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument? Dems want new probe.

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Protesters rally on the steps of the Utah state Capitol in Salt Lake City, Dec. 12, 2017, against Rep. Chris Stewart's Grand Staircase bill that would create an Escalante National Park along the much smaller boundaries set by President Donald Trump a few days earlier when he downsized the 20-year-old monument by executive order.