The Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter and more than two dozen other groups are calling on lawmakers to prioritize Arizona’s environment when the new legislative session begins next week.
Speaking outside the state Capitol on Wednesday, Sandy Bahr, director of the Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter, said the Republican-led Legislature has not passed, or even given committee hearings to climate change-focused bills in recent years. But she said the issue is urgent as the state’s drought worsens and extreme heat causes hundreds of deaths each year.
“They don’t have to say they stand in solidarity with all of us on climate change, but maybe they could stand in solidarity with us on saving lives,” Bahr said. “Inaction means it is going to cost us more, it is going to our kids more, it is going to cost their kids more, so we need to see action now.”…