Hello friends: This is our fourth email blast (you can comment or see previous posts on our blog) so read on and please share widely!

Status update: After we receive an updated Fiscal Estimate (no later than M June 17) we will get a sample petition packet from the Lt Governor’s office (here’s an example from 2018) and we can run off copies and begin gathering signatures, hopefully by Friday June 21!

In the news: Dave Carrier and I published an op-ed in the Sunday Tribune: “Let’s clean the darn air by taxing pollution instead of potatoes.” Please share widely! Also, Michael Bloomberg has pledged $500m to move Beyond Carbon and Senator Mitt Romney may co-sponsor a federal carbon tax bill.

Funding and events update: The money we’ve raised so far—about $10k—will get us printed materials (petition packets, yard signs, etc.) and our fabulous website… and that’s about it. If we had additional funds, we could look at hiring student interns (even $500 for the summer would help) and/or campaign staff. We’re hard at work on fundraising, and you can help by donating or by hosting a fundraiser house party! Stay tuned for news on a house party in Provo, and FYI I’ll be doing a comedy-and-carbon-tax talk at the First Presbyterian Church in Logan on W June 26.

Signature-gathering: Here’s the Gathering The Darn Signatures guide to signature-gathering, and here’s an initial list of events that might be good for signature-gathering. Feedback and comments welcome.

Chapters around the state: We’ve added chapter leaders for Ogden and Salt Lake City, so we now have leaders for four of the six chapters we’re setting up around the state! Details below, please reach out to them if you’re in their area, and please let us know if you want to lead or be part of the other chapters listed below (or start up another chapter elsewhere in the state). FYI these six chapters cover 28 of the 29 state Senate districts; in order to qualify for the 2020 ballot we need to hit the listed signature targets in 26 of the 29 state Senate districts, plus gather about 5,000 more signatures anywhere in the state to hit the statewide target of 115,869 valid signatures.

  1. The SW Utah chapter (Julie Hancock, julie@CleanTheDarnAir.org) covers two Senate districts (#28 and #29; this  map covers both) and has a target totaling 8,343 valid signatures.
  2. The Cache County chapter (Charles Ashurst, charles@CleanTheDarnAir.org) covers two Senate districts (#17 and #25; this map covers both) and has a target totaling 8,009 valid signatures.
  3. The Ogden area chapter (Tim Woodruff, tim@CleanTheDarnAir.org) covers three Senate districts (#18,  #19, and #20; this map covers all three) and has a target totaling 10,828 valid signatures.
  4. The Salt Lake area chapter (Drew Fagerlin, drew@CleanTheDarnAir.org) covers fifteen Senate districts (#1,  #2,  #3,  #4,  #5,  #6,  #8,  #9,  #10,  #11,  #12,  #21,  #22, #23, and #26; see maps of the 3 districts north of SLC #21-23, the 11 central districts #1-6 and #8-12, and the Park City/Vernal district #26) and has a target totaling 60,897 valid signatures.
  5. The Utah County chapter (chapter leader needed!) covers five Senate districts (#7,  #13,  #14,  #15, and #16; see this map zoomed on Utah Lake that covers #13-15 and this map of all five, with #15 unlabeled in the middle) and has a target totaling 20,084 valid signatures.
  6. The Moab / SE Utah chapter (chapter leader needed!) covers one Senate district (#27; see maps of the Moab area and the Price area, or the whole thing) and has a target of 3,950 valid signatures.
  7. Postscripts: Here’s a way to see all the Senate districts (make sure to click on “State Senate”) or look them up by zip code or address. And BTW the only district not covered by any of the chapters above is #24 (see map here), which stretches roughly from Nephi to Kanab.)

Onward!

Sincerely, Yoram and the Clean The Darn Air team