As electric vehicle (EV) adoption continues to grow rapidly in Utah, so does the need for charging infrastructure. Installing home charging stations can be expensive and is often out of reach for individuals living in moderate to low-income housing or for renters in general.
TAKE ACTION: Fill out this action alert and take a moment to share your personal stories and concerns regarding air pollution. The more stories and comments that we share with our government officials, the more likely we are to see the strongest standards set for soot pollution. The deadline is March 28th.
Contacting our lawmakers is one of your most powerful tools to ensure our voices are heard. Being an effective advocate for your community means raising your concerns and holding your legislators accountable for accurately representing their constituents.
Thanks to constituents (like you!), Congress voted to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), a program that compensates nuclear weapons development and testing victims, by two years. This extension is a great first step to preserving and expanding RECA, but it still falls short.
Utah lawmakers are trying to pass a new tax that would hurt Utahns who own electric vehicles.
To help stop this proposed 12.5% tax on EV owners in Utah, we need you to reach out to the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee and urge our lawmakers to VOTE NO or AMEND H.B. 301, titled Transportation Tax Amendments by Rep. Schultz.
Funding for zero-fares has not been identified as a top priority in the Executive Appropriations Committee and without action will not be funded.
We encourage you to reach out to members of the Executive Appropriations Committee and ask them to make a motion to include the “RFA Statewide Zero Fare Transit Pilot Program by Sen. Weiler” as a top priority for funding.
Utah Lawmakers plan to appropriate 2 million taxpayer dollars this legislative session to fund Rocky Mountain Powers’ legal lawsuit challenging the EPA’s ruling to include Utah and Wyoming in the CSAPR, better known as the “Good Neighbor Rule” of the Clean Air Act.
The Utah Division of Transportation (UDOT) has recently initiated the public outreach phase of their environmental study of the I-15 corridor between Farmington and Salt Lake City. UDOT launched the overall environmental study to propose solutions for projected transportation needs in surrounding communities.
The fight is not over yet: On September 21st, the Business and Labor Committee will hear the recommendations from the UBCC and pass it to the Utah Legislature, where it can be fully adopted as a new bill.
