By Jackson Dorsey | ArizonaBigMedia
Located in one of the most arid regions of the United States, the city of Phoenix struggles with reducing its environmental footprint.
The Sierra Club’s 2016 Environmental Report Card, which grades Arizona’s governor and all its legislators based on their efforts to promote environmental change, showcased Arizona’s lack of change, citing the legislature at the helm.
“The Arizona Legislature is determined to allow harm to what makes Arizona special,” said Sandy Bahr, director for Sierra Club’s Arizona chapter. “Rather than taking advantage of our 300-plus days of sunshine and growing solar industry and the jobs it provides, legislators passed a bill to hinder installations and even considered proposed constitutional amendments that would have likely destroyed the rooftop solar industry in Arizona.”
