Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: It's been almost a year since our last update... here's the news! Rally on T Dec 9 5:30pm at the Capitol: The League of Women Voters and Salt Lake Indivisible are among the backers of a rally at the Capitol on T Dec 9 at 5:30pm, just before the start of a(nother) special [...]
Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Utah's Supreme Court released a unanimous decision last week that is worth celebrating! The Tribune article came with a great front-page headline ("Ruling: Lawmakers can't ignore ignore voters"), the article in the Deseret News was deeply researched and a bit more measured---there's miles to go in this lawsuit, so if you can [...]
Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Tomorrow is the confluence of all sorts of goings-on regarding lawsuits, environmental issues, the play that based in part on the Clean The Darn Air campaign, and more: 1) On the legal front, the Salt Lake Tribune says that a decision in the gerrymandering lawsuit is coming tomorrow. It's been a year [...]
We are delighted to welcome Lauren Reynolds as a summer intern through the U of U Hinckley Institute. Lauren is an Environmental and Sustainability Studies major at the U, she did volunteer lobbying with HEAL Utah during the legislative session, and she will be helping with two projects this summer that are on very different [...]
During the fall, one of our great U of U Hinckley Institute interns, Sierra Denner, conducted a survey of our volunteers and supporters, and we're delighted to share the results! A summary is copied below, or you can find even more details in the 10-page write-up here. In other news, we are continuing to wait [...]
At our zoom meeting last week we agreed that we are not going to make the ballot this year, so we are shifting our focus to learning what we can from this year's experience in preparation for trying again down the road. Next steps will depend on what happens with the state legislature, with the [...]
We'll be meeting on Zoom (link available via email: info@DarnAir.org) on Friday July 28 from 7-8pm to discuss next steps for the campaign. We have a path to make the ballot but we are not currently on track, so please come join us on Zoom and in person to help us qualify for the Nov [...]
The Utah Supreme Court may be moving to protect ballot measures, so please come join us and help us qualify for the Nov 2024 ballot. We need 135,000 signatures by W Nov 22, 2023! Signature-gathering opportunities: Check out the Guide to Gathering Signatures and this 2-pager with instructions for signature gatherers, and then click on the links below for [...]
Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Jan and Paisley each got about 60 signatures an hour at Red Butte last night, and there are more concerts there and elsewhere coming up, so please come join us and help us qualify for the Nov 2024 ballot: we need 135,000 signatures by W Nov 22, 2023! Signature-gathering opportunities: Check out the Guide [...]
Hello clean-air-and-climate friends: Thanks to everyone who donated so we could get a deal on more stickers! They're coming soon, and now's the time to finish handing out the last batch of stickers while helping us qualify for the Nov 2024 ballot by collecting 135,000 signatures by W Nov 22, 2023! The 100 Club: Kudos to folks who have [...]