Subject: Environmental Policy

• MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

  December 30, 1992

• COSMIC EVENTS

  UOFA TELESCOPES PRODUCE STANGE PROTESTS AND WEIRED OFFICIAL REACTIONS

  September 22, 1993

• BUSINESS AS USUAL

  STATE LAWMAKERS SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS THIS SESSION. UNFORTUNATELY,MOST OF THE PROBLEMS WERE BIG BUSINESSES'.

  May 18, 1994

• COMEDY IS ENDANGEREDPEOPLE FOR THE WEST CONVENE, TRIGGER LAFF RIOT

  March 30, 1995

• A CFC PRIMER

  May 11, 1995

• FLASHES, 8-10

  August 10, 1995

• Tale of the Crypto

  Other Valley cities wonder whether Phoenix's water treatment practices increase the odds for an outbreak of a waterborne disease. It's called Crypto and it can kill.

  January 25, 1996

• Getting Onto Dodge

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

  June 6, 1996

• Trickle-Down Theory

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

  July 4, 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

  August 1, 1996

• Babbitt's Interior

  As the White House flips and flops, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt takes his environmental losses and victories in stride. Is his stoicism a necessary virtue or a political vice?

  August 22, 1996

• Scottsdale's Spin

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

  December 26, 1996

• Marshmallow Roast

  February 13, 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

  March 20, 1997

• Russell Mania

  Legislator's art is suddenly in high demand

  May 1, 1997

• Risky Business

  A former employee says Maricopa County is better at covering up than cleaning up its environmental hazards. And that could get the county in trouble for financial fraud--again.

  August 14, 1997

• A Fine Mess

  State agencies are reeling in the after-Fife, the ballyhooed state-budget surplus is all but spent, and the government bureaucracy is bigger than ever. Now it's up to Jane Dee Hull to make it all make sense.

  October 9, 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,

  December 11, 1997

• What a Wasteland

  July 9, 1998

• This Just In

  What's up with BOMEX?

  October 22, 1998

• Burns and ALEC

  December 3, 1998

• Letters

  From the week of December 20, 2001

  December 20, 2001

• BEST URBAN WILDLIFE VIEWING

  Rio Salado Wetlands

  September 18, 2003

• Green Fatigue: By the Numbers

  April 17, 2008

• Can't Miss: Icehouse

  March 1, 2007

• Breathless

  Despite a lot of hoopla at the beginning of Napolitano's administration, environmental protections for kids have not improved much

  November 2, 2006

• DEATH OF AN ECO WARRIOR

  LEROY JACKSON TRANSFORMED HIMSELF FROM A PHOENIX STREET WINO INTO A CHARISMATIC NAVAJO ENVIRONMENTALIST. HIS FRIENDS THINK HE WAS MURDERED FOR HIS EFFORTS.

  January 6, 1994

• Giving Us Crap

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

  August 23, 2001

• Trouble in the Sac

  Nevada's wastewater is causing sex problems in fish. But will Arizona get screwed by the solution?

  August 9, 2001

• Up in the Air

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

  June 1, 2000

• Insect Aside

  Tempe kept quiet about encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes, and the resulting pesticide applications

  November 18, 1999

• Twisted Ecologic

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

  November 11, 1999

• 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?

  August 6, 1998

• Clearing the Air

  The county attorney concludes the Sumitomo Sitix plant is not a public health threat, but a neighborhood effort against the plant continues

  May 28, 1998

• 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

  March 21, 1996

• Going Underground

  Industry makes secret push to gut laws protecting subsurface water supplies

  January 11, 1996

• 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.

  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.

  December 28, 1995

• FLASHES

  June 1, 1995

• FREON EASY

  ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS.

  May 4, 1995

• THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

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

  March 2, 1995

• THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

  FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

  September 29, 1994

• STAR GATE

  June 16, 1993

• MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

  October 7, 1992

• NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

  August 19, 1992

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

  August 19, 1992

• MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

  July 1, 1992

• EPA Giving $82 Million in Stimulus Cash to Arizona for Water Projects

    Image: Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is directing $82 million in Recovery Act Funds to Arizona water projects. The money will "create jobs, boost local economies, improve aging water and wastewater infrastructure and protect human health and the environment," says the EPA. The money will come mostly in two big chunks: $55.3 million to provide low-interest loans that pay for infrastructure improvements for drinking-water systems, and $

  April 30, 2009