Earlier this year, the Council chose to table approving the “Sustainability Plan,” more commonly known as a Climate Action Plan like Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff have adopted. The Plan outlines “goals” to reduce energy, water, and waste and purportedly to lower temperatures. State agencies are BANNED from planning to reduce emissions to lower temperatures, cities and towns should be too!

This plan would require increasing trash collection rates to meet their target of reducing waste by 90% in 15 years, to price you out of consuming what the city sees as too much because it will become too costly to throw out. In other words, throwing out the trash is now too expensive for you? No problem, just consume less!

The plan would also require increasing water rates, again “reducing” consumption by making it too expensive for residents to afford!

They also want to work with the Maricopa Association of Governments to “improve” air quality, but just last year MAG released their proposed air quality “control measures” that were nothing more than a carbon copy of the California plan of banning the sale of gas cars, regulating gas stoves out of existence, and other draconian measures to restrict individual liberty.

Finally, the city wants to reduce all energy use by 15% in 10 years, pushing expensive “green code” mandates on residents and businesses and using bureaucrats for enforcement.

The fact is these Climate Action Plans are built on faulty presuppositions propagated by radical climate alarmists. 

Tell your Councilmembers: NO “Sustainability Plans” and NO Controversial LAME DUCK Votes!