Request to Speak Actions for Water and the Environment

There are several bills that could have a negative impact on our enviroment being heard in the Arizona Legislative committees this week. This is your chance to register your position on Request to Speak (anytime now before the committee meeting.) 

There are still three bills alive that would harm the San Pedro River by weakening the water adequacy requirements for development: HB2512, HB2553, and SB1515. 

If you're signed up for Request to Speak, you can sign in here:

https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

If you haven't already, please, sign up for Request to Speak now:  http://www.cebv.us/

Directions on how to navigate Request to Speak here

Monday, March 19th

Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Energy, and Water at 2:00 P.M.

• HB2512 water program amendments (Bowers) is a water omnibus bill that contains a number of provisions, but the most harmful aspect would weaken adequacy requirements for areas such as Cochise County and could cause further harm to the San Pedro River. Oppose

• HB2553 adequate water supply; county review (Bowers) is a stand-alone bill for weakening the adequacy requirements for areas such as Cochise County and further threatening the San Pedro River. Oppose. 

Tuesday, March 20th

House Committee on Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources at 2:00 P.M.

• SB1515 adequate water supply; county review (Griffin) is the same as HB2553. Oppose.

Senate Committee on Transportation and Technology at 2:00 P.M.

• HB2266 dark sky lighting special plates (Thorpe: John, Payne) will have a strike everything amendment on electric bicycles that treats electric bicycles the same as regular bikes. This could have some negative unintended consequences on some of the trails and on pedestrians. Oppose.

• HB2622 international trade; authority; transportation (Rivero: Mosley, Toma)  sets up an authority, which could be used to promote the I-11 corridor, a proposal that would have huge negative impacts on Arizona's desert habitats. Oppose. 

Wednesday, March 21st

Senate Committee on Finance at 9:00 A.M.

• HB2003 coal mining; TPT; repeal (Finchem: Mitchell, Nutt) exempts coal sold in the state from the transaction privilege tax, protects Navajo County from the hit to revenues for the exemption, and makes it conditional on the Navajo Nation Council approving a resolution to transfer ownership of the Navajo Generating Station. This bill is a disaster! This plant is scheduled to be shut down any day now and for good reasons. It wasn't making a profit and it is bad for the environment. This bill is another effort to prop up coal. If we have to give a huge tax cut to coal companies - that means that coal mining isn’t economical, right? And the pollution from the plant will continue to hurt the health of the people and waters of that region. To make it worse, the revenue lost from this tax exemption will be taken from other state services - like K-12 education. Oppose.

Learn more about the bill here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzAleoGkAV0&feature=youtu.be

In summary: please sign in against HB2003, HB2266, HB2512, HB2553, HB2622, SB1515 on the Request to Speak system.

https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon