November 19, 2018 \u2013 The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic filed amicus briefs today in support of lawsuits challenging President Trump\u2019s shrinking of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.\u00a0 The Clinic filed the briefs on behalf of 21 local elected officials from Utah, led by Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Boulder Mayor Steve Cox, and Bluff Mayor Ann Leppanen.\u00a0 The briefs argue that shrinking the monuments will harm local economies and undermine efforts to shift away from fossil fuels toward more sustainable sources of energy.\u00a0 In addition, they explain that allowing presidents to shrink monuments upsets the reliance interests of communities that have developed recreation- and tourism-focused economies and risks destabilizing the national monument system nationwide.\u00a0 The briefs also demonstrate that the decision was made pursuant to a flawed process that ignored local voices.<\/p>\n
Clinic students Caroline Cox (JD \u201918) and Frank Sturges (JD \u201920) collaborated with Clinic Deputy Director Shaun Goho and Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs to write the briefs.<\/p>\n
Several local<\/a> news<\/a> sources<\/a><\/strong> in Utah have reported on the briefs.\u00a0 Read the full briefs here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 19, 2018 \u2013 The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic filed amicus briefs today in support of lawsuits challenging…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}