Urge your Reps to vote "No" on bills that hurt public lands

Bad bill from AZ heading to Washington?! 

After the super long list of bad bills last week, this week's Call to Action is much easier! We've earned it. 

I've included a condensed update taken from the Sierra Club (below) on what went on in the Arizona Legislature last week. But our Call to Action consists of signing the Sierra Club's petition and supporting one bill on the Request to Speak system.

The Arizona Legislature is again launching an attack on public lands and waters via a series of bills and memorials (messages to Congress and the President) asking that no more lands or waters be protected and that current protections be rescinded, and seeking to require legislative permission to protect any additional federal public land. Please send a message to your Arizona Representatives asking them to vote NO on all of these bills!

 
https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/Arizona?actionId=AR0419791

If you would also like to contact your Representative personally, you can find their contact information here: https://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster/ 

NOTE: Your Reps should be indicated on the petition. But you can look up your district here:  https://irc-az.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/lookup/index.html?appid=424810a4667049388ef6df4f0c73098b

Sign in on the Request to Speak System to support SCR1038.

SCR1038 Arizona state parks heritage fund (Kerr: Shope, Carbone, et al) refers to the ballot a measure to fund the Arizona State Parks Heritage Fund from the state lottery for $10 million per year. This basically is reinstating the original funding for this program.

Sign onto the RTS app:
https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

Review RTS directions:
https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2018/03/request-to-speak-time.html

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:

This week was challenging as the Arizona Legislature advanced an incredible list of truly awful legislation, targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion; objecting to sustainability in all forms; undermining clean energy; sending messages to repeal a national monument and the law that allows them -- the Antiquities Act; and advancing bills to weaken our water laws.

On Thursday, the House Government Committee passed HB2788 United Nations; sustainable development; prohibition (Jones: Biasiucci, Bliss, et al.) prohibiting Arizona or any of its political subdivisions from adopting the sustainable development agenda of the United Nations, listed above, which means they are objecting to support for ending poverty, support for achieving food security, ensuring healthy lives, achieving gender equality, and protecting the planet and our ability to live on it by objecting to action on climate change and promoting water sustainability.  FYI see UN Sustainable Development Goals (below.) 

They also advanced SB1195, SCR1015, and HCR2040 to prohibit spending dollars on climate, reducing traffic, and a lot more. SCR1015 and HCR2040 would go to the ballot..

Three exceptions to this bad policy blitz, include the following good bills that passed in committee: SCR1038 Arizona state parks heritage fund (Kerr: Shope, Carbone, et al) refers to the ballot a measure to fund the Arizona State Parks Heritage Fund from the state lottery for $10 million per year. This basically is reinstating the original funding for this program. SB1346 appropriation; schools; trees (Epstein: Alston, Bravo, et al.) appropriates $400,000 to the Arizona Department of Education for trees to distribute to public schools. HB2367 solid waste; fees; rules (Griffin) authorizes the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to establish various solid waste fees via rulemaking. The current fees in statute are far too low and don't properly fund the programs.