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Environmental Issues and Protection

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Peoria Trash Talk: Curbside Recycling Shoved Down Residents' (Trash) Cans Five Years Ago, And It's Worked Out Beautifully

    Peoria officials are looking at dropping residents monthly garbage fees by 13 percent -- from $15.06 to $13.10. Hey, every penny counts. But it's likely that wouldn't be the case if they city hadn't forced its residents to embrace curbside recycling a few years back.

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Critics Claim Supreme Master Ching Hai's Followers' Restaurants Featuring Tasty Vegan Fare Front For an Exploitive Movement.

    Peoria officials are looking at dropping residents monthly garbage fees by 13 percent -- from $15.06 to $13.10. Hey, every penny counts. But it's likely that wouldn't be the case if they city hadn't forced its residents to embrace curbside recycling a few years back.

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Phoenix Makes Top 20 in EPA's List of Most Energy-Efficient Cities

    Wikimedia Commons The Collier Center is one of Phoenix's most energy efficient buildings.​ The Environmental Protection Agency released its second annual list of U.S. cities with the most energy-efficient buildings. Phoenix ranked number 20, just ahead of Ogden, Utah, and Charlotte, North ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Firebird International Fined By EPA for Hazardous Waste Violations; President of Raceway Thinks it's a Blessing in Disguise

    www.bartonracing.com​The Environmental Protection Agency issued a fine to the Firebird International Raceway and if you ask Firebird International President Charlie Allen, it's a blessing in disguise.The EPA claims that in 2005, Firebird failed to properly report and label hazardous waste like aer ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    The Age of Stupid: Live from New York

    www.bartonracing.com​The Environmental Protection Agency issued a fine to the Firebird International Raceway and if you ask Firebird International President Charlie Allen, it's a blessing in disguise.The EPA claims that in 2005, Firebird failed to properly report and label hazardous waste like aer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    43 Members of Congress Request Border Wall Environmental Monitoring

    Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva​ On Friday, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's office requesting that she "mitigate and monitor" the environmental impact of the several-hundred mile Southwest border wall. The letter was signed b ... More >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

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

    Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva​ On Friday, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's office requesting that she "mitigate and monitor" the environmental impact of the several-hundred mile Southwest border wall. The letter was signed b ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 20, 2008

    Bill McKibben at Changing Hands Bookstore

    Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva​ On Friday, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's office requesting that she "mitigate and monitor" the environmental impact of the several-hundred mile Southwest border wall. The letter was signed b ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Garbage Time

    Something besides the dump stinks in Mobile

  • News

    December 13, 2001

    Hold On a Minute!

    Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony 'Save the Whale' campaign

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    Letters

    From the week of December 6–12, 2001

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Crying Whale

    Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    The New Economy

    The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    The Unlikely Environmentalists

    Mexican officials were quite capable of stopping one of the world's largest corporations on their own

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Road Warrior

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

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Up in the Air

    Why isn't DEQ cracking down on an alleged law breaker?

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Range Wars

    Tolerance of ranching puts The Nature Conservancy at odds with the environmental community

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    Twisted Ecologic

    Governor Hull says it's time for inclusiveness in politics. Environmentalists say she won't give them the time of day.

  • 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

    January 7, 1999

    Industry Goes to the Well . . . to dilute clean-water regulations

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

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Balancing Act

    Western governors conference weighs pros and cons of environmental policy

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    Talking Trash

    Industry group's "Environmental Summit" puts pollution in perspective--its own

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    Saving Private Interests

    John McCain says he wants to save Spur Cross Ranch. Has he really gone Green, or is he just scrounging for greenbacks from a Cincinnati fat cat?

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    What a Wasteland

    John McCain says he wants to save Spur Cross Ranch. Has he really gone Green, or is he just scrounging for greenbacks from a Cincinnati fat cat?

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    Cleaning the Creek

    A mining company mucks out its own mess at Pinto Creek

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    Government by Litigation

    Increasingly, public officials ignore laws they're paid to uphold. Citizens and interest groups regularly drag these same bureaucrats into court, trying to ensure that the laws of the land are enforced. But now even the courts, once bastions of authority,

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    Cow Punchers

    Ranching takes a blow in the courts, an uppercut to the bottom line and a jab in the marketplace

  • News

    August 7, 1997

    Sabotage at Sitix?

    Silicon plant fouls air while company worries about foul play

  • News

    March 27, 1997

    Water Over the Dam

    Dave Wegner's career with the Bureau of Reclamation seemed to be at peak flow. He had no idea it was about to run dry.

  • News

    August 1, 1996

    Owl See You in Court

    From spikedaces to spotted owls, the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity has logged the legal system and rewritten the book on environmental activism

  • News

    July 4, 1996

    Trickle-Down Theory

    Industries get a big say in rewrite of water-pollution laws; public may pick up tab

  • News

    June 6, 1996

    Getting Onto Dodge

    State official harshly criticizes Phelps Dodge environmental record; mining firm's development delayed

  • News

    March 21, 1996

    From Dust to ... Golf?

    Phelps Dodge wants to turn a dusty plain of toxic mine tailings into what it says is an environment-friendly golf course near the Verde River. No one can be sure whether the unprecedented plan will work. But that hasn't stopped anyone from fighting abo

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    Going Underground

    Industry makes secret push to gut laws protecting subsurface water supplies

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    Money for Nothing

    There's plenty of money in the Department of Environmental Quality budget. But crazy personnel rules keep the agency understaffed and ineffective.

  • 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

    September 7, 1995

    NO MINER CONSIDERATION

    A CANADIAN MINING COMPANY WANTS TO DIG A 300-ACRE HOLE BEHIND DONNA GOODALE'S HOUSE. ALTHOUGH MOST ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES INVOLVED THINK IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA, THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO STOP THE EXCAVATION.

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

    IF YOU'D LIKE TO GIVE INDUSTRY FREE REIN OVER ARIZONA'S NATURAL RESOURCES, YOU'LL LOVE THESE POLITICIANS

  • News

    November 24, 1994

    BUYING A GILA MONSTER

    FARMERS IN THE GILA RIVER BASIN HAVE ALREADY SUCKED DOWN $500 MILLION IN GOVERNMENT PORK. NOW THEY WANT ANOTHER $20 MILLION FOR A SENSELESS FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECT.

  • News

    September 29, 1994

    THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    June 16, 1993

    STAR GATE

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    March 10, 1993

    WHITEWASH? WHAT WHITEWASH?WHILE GOVERNOR SYMINGTON TOOK THE BOWS FOR GETTING RID OF ENSCO, THE PROTESTERS TOOK THE LUMPS

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    December 30, 1992

    MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    December 30, 1992

    A YEAR INSIDE THE MOTOROLA MESSSINNERS AND VICTIMS--WARRIORS AND REGULATORS

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    October 7, 1992

    MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    August 19, 1992

    NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    August 19, 1992

    THE COST OF TOXIC SPILLSHERE'S HOW YOU'LL PAY FOR MOTOROLA'S CONTAMINATION

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    August 5, 1992

    TREES FALL, CHIPS FLYHOW MUCH WOOD DID THE WOOD COMPANY CUT ON THE NORTH KAIBAB?

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  • News

    July 1, 1992

    DISASTER RESPONSE

    FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

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