New bill introduced in the Utah State Legislature has an ambitious goal of cutting carbon emissions along the Wasatch Front by 50% by 2030.
House Bill 220 is the"largest air quality bill that’s ever been introduced in the Utah legislature," said Eliza Cowie with the environmental group O2 Utah.
"What I wanted was to put it all out there. This is my wish list," he told FOX 13 News."Let’s chip away at it and see what we can do.""I think right now you can look outside and see the inversion this week. It’s pretty bad," said Cowie."Our economy is losing $2 billion a year, Utahns on average are losing 2 years of life and miscarriage rates are up 16% [due to] poor air quality days. There’s never a more pressing time to get this on the right track.
"Putting it all into one bill just makes it practically a little difficult because it’s too much to work with. My hope is Rep. Stoddard can find pieces of the bill that can be pared down and actually work on that so we can get a passable bill," he said.
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