Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Our effort to get on the 2020 ballot fell short, but we're going to try again for 2022, and to see why you only need to look at the effort to force a referendum on the tax reform bill that was passed last month: the backers of the referendum have an incredibly [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Continuing to shift focus to 2022 and/or 2024. We have not been able to get a major donation or other game-changing development, so although we are still gathering some signatures in "experimental mode", we are doing so mostly with an eye on future years because the odds of getting on the 2020 [...]

Here are ten key lessons from our campaign. Email us if you've got more! We've learned the importance of getting a fast start. One of the main constraints on signature gathering is that all signatures have to be submitted no later than 316 days after the date the initiative application was filed. We filed our initiative on [...]

The relevant part of the Utah legislative code is 20A-7 Part 2; here's a PDF of the whole thing. Note that, per 20A-1-201, "regular general elections"---which turn out to be the focal point of statewide ballot measures---are held in even-numbered years. The discussion below centers on the Nov 2022 ballot, but there are comments at [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Let's start with the bad news: We aimed to get 1,000 signatures a day in October and we fell short of that goal. At this point, getting on the 2020 ballot is either going to require (1) a greater rate of increase in our current volunteer effort or (2) large donations to hire more help [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Halloween "do or die": We've submitted over 31,000 signatures (!) and the latest info from the state (which has a lag of up to 30 days because of the time it takes to validate signatures) shows that they've validated over 22,000 signatures, but we need to do more in order to hit 1,000 signatures [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Halloween "do or die": We've submitted over 28,000 signatures (!) and the latest info from the state (which has a lag of up to 30 days because of the time it takes to validate signatures) shows that they've validated over 20,000 signatures, but we need to do more in order to hit 1,000 signatures [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Halloween "do or die": Last week we posted that in order to continue beyond October we needed to ramp up our efforts and hit 1000 signatures a day by the end of the month. We're making progress toward that target (almost 26,000 signatures submitted to date, an increase of almost 4,000 from [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Do or die by Halloween: The good news is that we’ve gathered over 22,000 signatures and that voters all around the state are eager to sign our petition! The bad news is that time is running out: In order to get 116,000 signatures by February 2020 we need to significantly step up our efforts. To [...]

Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: We've submitted 20,000 signatures! Thanks to everyone for helping us get this far, and congratulations to Callie Northrup, Joel Ban, and Ronan Carrier for making the 250 Club of folks who've gathered 250+ signatures! FYI the latest state tally (which is delayed by up to 30 days because of the time it [...]