Update March 2021: The material below is archived from our effort to make the Nov 2020 ballot. See the blog for updates as we regroup for Nov 2024! Archived from 2020 Update Aug 23: Signatures from voters outside of SLC will now be worth double! (Details: In addition to the original 50-cents-per signature deal for Emissionaries [...]

By Yoram Bauman and Drew Fagerlin The attached spreadsheet estimates the fiscal impacts of the Clean The Darn Air ballot measure on household income quintiles. (There are five income quintiles, so---for example---the lowest quintile is the 20% of households with the lowest incomes.) The analysis looks at the direct and indirect impacts of the carbon [...]

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 [...]

Hello friends: This is our third email blast (you can comment or see previous posts on our blog) so read on and please share widely! Status update: We submitted our final legal language on F May 17 (here it is on the Lt Governor's website; see Our Policy for policy summaries and details) and we will receive [...]

Update March 2021: The material below is archived from our effort to make the Nov 2020 ballot. See the blog for updates as we regroup for Nov 2024! Archived from 2020 Here's a list of potential signature-gathering events. Here is a draft sign-up sheet, but feel free to go to any of these events even if [...]

Important: Before gathering signatures, please read the 2-page Instructions for Signature Gatherers. Note in particular that (1) you must ask each signer “Would you like a sticker with more information?”; (2) if any signer adds their email address next to their signature, you must email us immediately at info@DarnAir.org with the signer's email address so that [...]

Here's a $7,500 budget for printed materials, including JPGs (and links to PDFs) of the latest draft of printed materials. Click on each image for a larger size JPG.   Bumper sticker (scales to 9.5" by 2.5"): $500 for 1,000 ($0.50 each). PDF. [Update: In hindsight these weren't really all that necessary or useful. People [...]

Hello friends: This is our second email blast (you can comment or see previous posts on our blog) so read on and please share widely! Final legal language submitted We submitted our final legal language last Friday, May 17. (Whew! It should show up soon on the Lt Gov's website, but for now here's an [...]

We submitted our final ballot language on Friday May 17. It should show up soon on the Lt Gov's website, but for now here's an unofficial link. Major changes include: increasing clean air funding from $75m to $100m a year and rural economic development funding from $25m to $50m a year; tweaking the effective dates [...]

Copied below is our first email blast. If you didn't get it and you want to get future email blasts, please sign up! Hello friends: This is our first email blast, so there's lots of news. Read on and please share widely! The story so far Our grassroots group decided to file a ballot measure [...]