Jen’s Green Journal has an account of the Citizens Lobbying 101 Training, organized by HEAL Utah, held last night at the Utah Capitol Complex.
HEAL Utah has this update and request on Utah S.B. 70:
The State Senate is likely to vote on SB 70 today (Thursday) or perhaps Friday. I want to thank everyone who has sent in a comment to the legislators we’ve been emailing out. Your comments keep this process we call democracy working. If you haven’t yet done so, I’ve listed the legislative leadership in the senate below. You should send a comment in the next few hours (even if you’ve already sent a comment, forward it to numbers 4 and 5, who we haven’t included yet).
1) Senate President John Valentine, (801) 224-1693, jvalentine@utahsenate.org
2) Senate Majority Leader Peter Knudson, (435) 723-2035, pknudson@utahsenate.org
3) Senate Majority Whip Dan Eastman, (801) 295-5133, deastman@utahsenate.org
4) Senate Minority Leader Mike Dmitrich, (435) 637-0426, mdmitrich@utahsenate.org
5) Senate Minority Whip Gene Davis, (801) 484-9428, gdavis@utahsenate.org
Polls show 86% of Utahns are opposed to hotter nuclear waste being dumped in our state. It’s probably safe to assume that a majority of Utahns also oppose more nuclear waste being dumped here. Yet with SB 70, members of the legislature are turning a blind eye towards public sentiment and putting the bottom-line of one company above the health of all of us and of future generations of Utahns.
As the Deseret News editorial page put it this morning, “When even low-level waste is deposited here, it renders part of the state unusable for generations.”
John Urgo
Outreach Director
HEAL Utah
68 S Main St, Suite 400
SLC, UT 84101
(801) 355-5055
john@healutah.org
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