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Advocacy groups: climate edition on Tuesday's Access Utah

Photo from blog.utahmomsforcleanair.org
Photo from blog.utahmomsforcleanair.org

Each year at the beginning of the Utah legislative session we invite advocacy groups on the program to talk about their priorities for the legislature. A few weeks ago following our latest such episode we received the following message from Louise Excell in Springdale: “Thanks for your interviews with advocacy groups, but what about giving access to advocates of climate, like o2 Utah, Citizens Climate Lobby, and environmental advocates? When Phil Lyman's ‘Yellow Cake Caucus’ is trying to cut down forests to save water, someone needs to speak out for sane, rational legislation to save us from ourselves.” Today we’ll be talking to Zachary Frankel, Executive Director, Utah Rivers Council; Melanie Hall, Senior Policy Associate, Heal Utah; Eliza Cowie, Policy Director, o2 Utah; and Josh Craft, Government and Corporate Relations Manager, Utah Clean Energy.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.