Environmental Policy

MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

COSMIC EVENTS

UOFA TELESCOPES PRODUCE STANGE PROTESTS AND WEIRED OFFICIAL REACTIONS

BUSINESS AS USUAL

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

COMEDY IS ENDANGEREDPEOPLE FOR THE WEST CONVENE, TRIGGER LAFF RIOT

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

A CFC PRIMER

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

FLASHES, 8-10

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

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.

Getting Onto Dodge

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

Trickle-Down Theory

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

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

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?

Scottsdale's Spin

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

Marshmallow Roast

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

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

Russell Mania

Legislator's art is suddenly in high demand

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.

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.

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,

What a Wasteland

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,

This Just In

What's up with BOMEX?

Burns and ALEC

What's up with BOMEX?

Letters

From the week of December 20, 2001

BEST URBAN WILDLIFE VIEWING

Rio Salado Wetlands

Green Fatigue: By the Numbers

Rio Salado Wetlands

Can't Miss: Icehouse

Rio Salado Wetlands

Breathless

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

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.

Giving Us Crap

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

Trouble in the Sac

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

Up in the Air

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

Insect Aside

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

Twisted Ecologic

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

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?

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

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.

FLASHES

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.

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.

THE POLLUTION ALL-STARS

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

THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

STAR GATE

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

NATIONAL SUPERFUND SHIFT UNVIELED IN PHOENIX

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

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

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

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 en ... More >>