FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1/13/15
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With land seizure debacle closed, focus should be on community climate disaster solutions
WASHINGTON—Today, the United States Supreme Court denied a lawsuit filed by the State of Utah, which challenges the Federal Government’s responsibility to administer public lands through the Bureau of Land Management.
In response, GreenLatinos Public Land Program Director Olivia Juarez issues the following statement:“Utahns have finally been relieved from the burden on taxpayer dollars to fund the state’s ill-founded lawsuit and disinformation campaign to seize control of lands held in trust for all Americans. Now that Utah has lost, it has millions of dollars freed up to invest in solutions to the issues that harm Utahns, such as sustainable urban and town development, ecosystem regeneration, water conservation infrastructure, and clean energy workforce development. SCOTUS’ decision should serve as a wake-up call to elected officials nationally that public lands are here to stay and should be treated as a solution to the greatest issue of national importance of our era: the climate crisis.”
GreenLatinos (NOTE: GreenLatinos is ONE WORD) is an active comunidad of Latino/a/e leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation.