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Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

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

      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 >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Green Fatigue: By the Numbers

      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 >>

  • News

    June 30, 2005

    S#&t Storm

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

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Contaminated Splendor

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

  • News

    November 4, 2004

    Born Again

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

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Garbage Time

    Something besides the dump stinks in Mobile

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    Space Invaders

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

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Ant Farm

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

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Letters

    Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Fire

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

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Goober-natorial

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

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Giving Us Crap

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

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Arizona's Worst Neighbor

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

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Road Warrior

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

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Flashes

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

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Tributary Bypass

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

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    Flashes

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

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Scott Free

    Senator Bundgaard comes to the rescue of a polluter

  • News

    December 3, 1998

    Unpleasantville

    Senator Bundgaard comes to the rescue of a polluter

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    What a Wasteland

    Senator Bundgaard comes to the rescue of a polluter

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    Flashes

    Senator Bundgaard comes to the rescue of a polluter

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    Cleaning the Creek

    A mining company mucks out its own mess at Pinto Creek

  • News

    November 27, 1997

    Flashes

    A mining company mucks out its own mess at Pinto Creek

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Letters

    A mining company mucks out its own mess at Pinto Creek

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    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.

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    Letters

    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.

  • News

    July 10, 1997

    Flashes

    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.

  • News

    March 20, 1997

    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

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    Marshmallow Roast

    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

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    Scottsdale's Spin

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

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    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?

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    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.

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    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.

  • News

    August 31, 1995

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

    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.

  • News

    September 15, 1994

    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

  • Film

    August 18, 1993

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

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

  • News

    December 30, 1992

    MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

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

  • News

    December 2, 1992

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

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

  • News

    October 7, 1992

    MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

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

  • News

    August 19, 1992

    NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

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

  • News

    July 22, 1992

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

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

  • News

    May 13, 1992

    ROOTING FOR THE NEWS

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

  • News

    May 6, 1992

    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

  • News

    April 29, 1992

    PEST CONTROLGOVERNMENT SPRAYS FOR ENVORONMENTALISTS BEFORE HOSTING PESTICIDE CONFAB

    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

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