Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

Canada to Blame for Filling Valley With Smoke

​If you drove to work this morning thinking the Valley looks hazier than usual, you're right -- and Canada's to blame.Mark Shaffer, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, tells New Times the haze isn't the usual smog that often blocks the mountainous scenery during the ... More >>

"Border Trash" Web Site Launched by State to Emphasize Problem; Volunteers for Cleanups Sought

  Image: www.azbordertrash.gov The state has launched a new Web site to bring attention to the trash dumped by border crossers in southern Arizona.​A new Web site launched by the state of Arizona emphasizes the problem of litter from illegal border crossers and seeks volunteers f ... More >>

Hot Links: Abortion Bill, Oil Refineries, and Car Surfing

​The Arizona Legislature advanced an abortion bill yesterday, while delaying a concealed weapons bill. The abortion measure, which requires final passage before moving to the Senate, would require health care personnel who treat women with complications from abortions to submit a report to the sta ... More >>

Hot Links: Motorcycle Emissions, Education Funding, and a Body Found in the Grand Canyon

​A possible extension of the Valley Metro light rail that would extend through Mesa is likely to get federal funding, according to Mesa Mayor Scott Smith. Smith presented the project to officials in Washington D.C. last week and claims that federal officials are all but sold on helping fund th ... More >>

Hot Links: Uranium Mining, Balsillie in Court, and SRP Rates

​Uranium mining could resume near the Grand Canyon this year, after the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality issued an air-quality permit to Denison Mines. The company plans to work the Arizona 1 mine, which hasn't been mined for two decades. Conservationists and Native American groups oppo ... More >>

Dlubak Recycling Company Violates Standards in Yuma, Spreads Lead, Says DEQ; E-Waste Going to South Korea, Not Philippines

  Lead-contaminated glass at the Yuma location of Dlubak Glass recycling company is being shipped to South Korea, not the Philippines, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality now reports. Mark Shaffer, spokesman for the agency, tells us state officials named the wrong ... More >>

Recycling 101: What to recycle, what not to recycle,and does it even matter?

Green Fatigue: By the Numbers

S#&t Storm

Phoenix's sewer crisis has gone unnoticed by most toilet users, but it's the talk of sewage experts nationwide

Contaminated Splendor

Painted Rock Reservoir's beauty is deceiving. It's one of the most toxic sinkholes in America

Born Again

Business and environmentalists agreed for once, and a beautiful Arizona stream will return to us.

Garbage Time

Something besides the dump stinks in Mobile

Space Invaders

All of a sudden, the City of Phoenix wants a chronic polluter to stick around. What gives?

Ant Farm

The death of tiny Autumn White should make lawmakers think more carefully about state budget cuts

Letters

Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

Fire

Phoenix's negligence left hundreds sick from toxic fumes. It's only a matter of time before it happens again.

Goober-natorial

Janet Napolitano is the Dems' lame anointee for governor. But Alfredo Gutierrez could beat her.

Giving Us Crap

Farmers say it's nourishing. Critics say it's noxious. Either way, tons of California sewage is headed to Arizona.

Arizona's Worst Neighbor

People are sick and animals are dying near TRW's air-bag plant in Mesa.

Road Warrior

Ranch owner's feud with feds has been dragging on for 10 years

Flashes

Tributary Bypass

Ninety years ago, an electric company harnessed all 14 miles of Fossil Creek. Now, environmentalists want the water set free.

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Scott Free

Senator Bundgaard comes to the rescue of a polluter

Unpleasantville

What a Wasteland

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Cleaning the Creek

A mining company mucks out its own mess at Pinto Creek

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Letters

Unclean Getaway

Maricopa County dumped hazardous waste at its property for years. But don't expect the county to pay for it -- ADEQ has already let it off the hook.

Letters

Flashes

Taken to the Cleaners

A family-owned company could go out of business because state Senator Russell Bowers has introduced legislation that would free a larger company from paying its share to clean up toxic groundwater

Marshmallow Roast

Scottsdale's Spin

City responds to reports of tainted drinking water by lobbying state officials

Scottsdale's Drinking Problem

It's crystal clear that the city of Scottsdale served its citizens water laced with a suspected carcinogen. But did city officials do it on purpose?

Tapped Out

In Pine and Strawberry, the groundwater runs down to Phoenix. Now water reserves are shrinking, the two paradisiacal Mogollon Rim hamlets are drying out--and hardly anyone wants to admit it.

Quit Polluting Our Aquifers. Please. Pretty Please.

Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

WELFARE FOR GOLFTHE GOVERNMENT IS SUBSIDIZING MORE AND MORE WATER-SLURPING, PESTICIDE-LACED GOLF COURSES--EVEN THOUGH THE VALLEY ALREADY HAS 130 OF THEM

ARIZONA'S OIL CHANGE

THE STATE'S ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY SAYS THE DEPARTMENT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES SHIRKS ITS MANDATE TO CHECK USED OIL FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE

DIRT CLEANERS SUE CITYSOIL-RECYCLING CENTER'S FUTURE WILL HING ON ZONING PROCESS, NOT POLLUTION OUTPUT

MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

TAKING DEQ TO THE CLEANERSMINORITIES GET STATE'S EAR, DEMAND "ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE"

MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

MINE SHAFTEDTHE FOLKS IN MORRISTOWN MAY BE GETTING A NOT-SO-GRAND CANYON

ROOTING FOR THE NEWS

MOTOROLA

FOR DECADES THE PROMISE OF CLEAN, HIGH-TECH PLANTS REPRESENTED ARIZONA'S FUTURE. NOW WE MUST ALL PAY FOR THE MISTAKES OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY

PEST CONTROLGOVERNMENT SPRAYS FOR ENVORONMENTALISTS BEFORE HOSTING PESTICIDE CONFAB