Teachers in Utah are encouraged to carry guns in the classroom.

Poor conservation practices combined with climate change means the Great Salt Lake is drying up, human health is at risk, and its fragile ecosystem is falling apart.

Utah is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.

Utah is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, including by firing squad.

Decades of fire suppression causes blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests and a condition made worse by the climate crisis.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Texas where last summer, people in prison endured temperatures of 110F.

Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in Texas with very limited exceptions.

Texas’ treatment of immigrants ranges from cruel to unusual.

Texas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Federally endangered red wolves have been extirpated from much of their range including in Tennessee.

Tennessee is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.

Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in Tennessee with very limited exceptions.

Tennessee has among the highest rates of book bans in the nation.

Tennessee is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Just 2% of the wild prairie that dominated South Dakota is left and under threat from grazing, fire suppression, invasive species, conversion to agriculture, and mining and wind development.

South Dakota is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.

Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in South Dakota with very limited exceptions.

South Dakota has weak gun laws; a very high rate of suicide, mostly by gun; it expanded its Shoot First laws; and has no requirement for concealed carry of firearms in public.

South Dakota is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Beavers, bobcats, coyote, gray foxes and red, mink, muskrats and otters are among the animals that can be hunted or trapped for their fur in South Carolina despite a national need for predators for a healthy ecosystem.