Urgent! Utah lawmakers are attempting to pass legislation that would fund fossil fuel infrastructure like the Book Cliffs Highway with taxpayer money. Join us in telling them to scrap this bill.
State Bill 51 was originally written to dictate emissions test requirements for cars more than 30 years old. Using this innocuous, even positive legislation as a Trojan Horse, Sen. Wayne Harper (R - Salt Lake) has rewritten it to fund projects like the Book Cliffs Highway with Community Impact Board (CIB) money through the Throughput Infrastructure Fund.
This fund could be mitigating the effects of fossil fuel extraction in our state. Instead, SB51 would redirect it to wasteful & needless projects like the Book Cliffs Highway.
Use the form below to tell your legislators to fund roads for Utahns, not hydrocarbons.
Who’s paying for this?
Estimates for the cost of the highway range from $150 million to $500 million. Utah legislators are working to open the Throughput Infrastructure Fund so that it could be spent on the Book Cliffs Highway.