Once again the Utah Legislature is giving us reassuring solutions to our most concerning environmental impending catastrophe: Prayers, blue suit day, tax refunds (for a couple of Big Macs a month), chopping down trees and a multi-billion dollar pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to save the Great Salt Lake.
Or how about restricting alfalfa farming, limiting the magnesium plant water draw downs, fines for midday watering, xeriscaping new properties, tax incentive turf grass replacement, recycling gray water on aggressive statewide scale and, yes, even turning off the water brushing our teeth?
And if their anything-for-commercial-development-mantra inland port is built, this will not be the place.
Peter R. Finn, Murray