Environmental Issues and Protection

Arizona Has a Higher Percentage of Global-Warming Believers Than Any Other State

People in Arizona are more likely to believe that global warming is a real thing than people in any other state.It may be easy to believe, since a large portion of the state is essentially a Crock-Pot that cooks humans during the summer, but it may also be difficult to believe, given the conspiracy- ... More >>

For Matt Damon and Company, the Message Is the Message

Nancy Selover, State Climatologist, Doesn't Really Expect 100-Degree Winters in Phoenix, Despite Republic Article

We had a temporary, though intense, urge to flee the state after reading Michael Clancy's climate-change apocalypse story in today's Arizona Republic. Clancy's story describes how climate change could turn Arizona from the paradise it is today into a scorched, polluted, economically challenged wast ... More >>

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.

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

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 >>

The Age of Stupid: Live from New York

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 >>

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

Bill McKibben at Changing Hands Bookstore

Garbage Time

Something besides the dump stinks in Mobile

Hold On a Minute!

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

Letters

From the week of December 6–12, 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.

The New Economy

The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

The Unlikely Environmentalists

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

Road Warrior

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

Range Wars

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

Twisted Ecologic

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

Tributary Bypass

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

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

Balancing Act

Western governors conference weighs pros and cons of environmental policy

Talking Trash

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

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?

What a Wasteland

Cleaning the Creek

A mining company mucks out its own mess at Pinto Creek

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,

Sabotage at Sitix?

Silicon plant fouls air while company worries about foul play

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.

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

Trickle-Down Theory

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

Getting Onto Dodge

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

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

Going Underground

Industry makes secret push to gut laws protecting subsurface water supplies

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.

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.

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.

THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

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

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.

THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

STAR GATE

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

MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

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

MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

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

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

DISASTER RESPONSE