2018 UT Senate race: on Environment

Craig Bowden: EPA should only advise; enforcement is over-reach

A: Agree.

Q: Some examples of what you consider over-reach? What to do about the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act?

A: I would return the EPA to its original mission: advisory, not enforcement. I think in cases where there are violations against another person (ex: dumping into water source), we need to have experts that can testify on behalf of victims, but there must be due process involved before any punitive measures are taken.

Jenny Wilson: Build bikeways instead of just freeways

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "Indeed it could. On the Salt Lake County Council, I've been working on active transportation and serve on the regional active transportation committee."

Jenny Wilson: Why are our parks and canyons receiving so little?

A: Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee focus on the "role of the Federal government" to the detriment of allowing the Federal government to actually SERVE Utah's citizens. Meanwhile, state and local government is left to pick up the pieces. One example is that the forest service has no funds to apply to trail maintenance and our Wasatch Canyons are overrun. I appropriated $300,000 in County funds a few months ago to build a bathroom up Cottonwood Canyon on Forest Service land. Why are our parks and canyons receiving so little?

Another example is how little the Federal government compensates rural Utah for its ownership of Federal Land. For example, Garfield County is the size of Connecticut & most of its land is not taxable, yet the Federal government only provides around $850,000 annually to support that County. That's not enough to run basic government services for those residents.