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Utah County GOP adopts resolution praising carbon and opposing carbon-tracking
Summary
The Central Committee adopted a resolution describing carbon and CO2 as essential to life, citing a stated atmospheric level of 420 ppm, and opposing carbon-tracking policies and federal/state constraints on carbon-based energy.
The Utah County Republican Central Committee on Nov. 8 adopted a resolution endorsing carbon and carbon-based energy and opposing governmental or corporate tracking of individual carbon usage.
The resolution text presented to the committee stated, among other points, that "atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations are currently at 420 parts per million (ppm)" and that elevated CO2 can increase plant growth and water-use efficiency. It also called on Utah’s Legislature and federal delegation to protect the state’s ability to manage carbon-based resources and to reject federal carbon reporting or tracking mandates. The resolution was moved and adopted during the meeting; the transcript records the resolution text and the adoption.
The resolution frames carbon dioxide as "not pollution, but rather an essential atmospheric gas" and lists specific policy positions including opposition to carbon credits and carbon-tracking systems the party described as tools for surveillance and behavioral control. The transcript records the committee's adoption but does not include a roll-call tally for the final vote.
