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Tribune Editorial: Utah’s Legislature passes a win, and a loss, for the environment

Rep. Rebecca Edwards sponsored House Joint Resolution 7, which is a nonbinding resolution to commit the state to consider the environment in future policy decisions, for a future that is “economically and environmentally viable.”

The Legislature passed a bill that would fund $1.65 million of an effort to sue California on the ground that its laws to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, and charge more to utilities that buy power from coal-fired plants, make Utah’s coal a more expensive option.