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Solar Eclipsed: Why the Sun Won't Power Phoenix Despite an Industry Boom

Tea Party T-Shirt: Can What You Wear Determine Whether You Can Go to the Polls?

Al Gore's Clean-Energy Group Hosting Talk on "Benefits" of Proposed Law

Image: American Solar Electric A group headed by Al Gore is hosting a library roundtable this Wednesday to talk about the hoped-for benefits of the Waxman-Markey bill, a plan to kickstart clean-energy industries now wending its way through Congress. (No, Gore won't be there). According to Rep ... More >>

Hot Links: Woman Crawling on Freeway Causes Crash; Illegal Immigrant College Grads Can't Find Jobs; State Losing Jobs at Faster Pace

A woman crawling on the U.S. 60 freeway was hit by three cars and caused a collision -- police don't know what she was doing there; she probably didn't know, either. Tempe's photo enforcement program is raking in dough. Navajo down: Phoenix Symphony releases CD of oratorio inspired by a Native Amer ... More >>

State Boosts Water Quality Regulations; Gives Special Status to Fossil Creek

  Beautiful Fossil Creek just northwest of Payson was given the status of "Outstanding Arizona Water" today by state officials, mandating that government must protect it from harm. In a 3-1 vote, the Governor's Regulatory Review Council approved new state water quality standards that prote ... More >>

Save Darfur?

War, slaughter, genocide — and you feel like seeing a movie?

Breathless

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

Shark Bites

JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory

Sacred Hypocrisy

Navajos say making Snowbowl snow from reclaimed water is "genocide." Please!

Send in the Clowns

Don't bother, they're here. After a decade of voter-mandated reform, the Arizona Legislature is as out of touch as ever

BEST STRETCH OF ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY

Church of Body Modification

Indian Ruin

The Zuni tribe's plans for Phoenix billboards were abruptly canceled by Clear Channel

Mock Turtle Scoop

The Spike clears up tale of the tortoises and the harebrained

Just Plain Cuckoo

What was the Audubon Society thinking when it named a pro-development Republican to head its new statewide effort?

Letters

From the week of August 2, 2001

Hold the Oil

Lunch with an environmentalist offers food for thought

Burn, Baby, Burn

'Stop urban sprawl!' 'Burn the rich!' 'An acre an hour is obscene!' Is it any wonder some are rooting for the arsonists?

Range Wars

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

Autograph Hound

Derrick Lee is the most powerful political figure you've never heard of

Babbitt's Secret Growth-Control Plan

While the state and the Sierra Club jockey to curb urban expansion, the Secretary of the Interior is quietly pushing his own proposal. We've got the maps.

Forest Grump

A prominent Southwestern environmental group is at the center of a squirrelly federal lawsuit

The Gift That Keeps On Giving Access

Twisted Ecologic

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

Continental Divide

A development proposed for a north Valley slope has residents accusing the county of "collusion"

Growing Complicated

Already, the state's grand plan for halting urban sprawl appears doomed

The Law of the Land

Lobbyists ride roughshod over the legislative process, going so far as to write the bills that lawmkers pass

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

Balancing Act

Western governors conference weighs pros and cons of environmental policy

Why Growing Smarter Will Grow Old Fast

The so-called Growing Smarter measure would prevent the state from enacting strict growth controls. At the same time, however, it would free up $220 million for land preservation.

Talking Trash

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

Snow Clouds Over the San Francisco Peaks

Like some weather cycle, the battle between skiers and Native American religion returns to Arizona Snowbowl

Jingo All the Way

Outside groups leading the anti-immigration campaign in Arizona are trying to distance themselves from their own bigoted pasts.

Cow Punchers

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

Same Dam Story

Lake Powell's high waters are flushing the Grand Canyon again. Is it Mother Nature's fault or the Bureau of Reclamation's?

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.

The U.S. Forage Service

Cattle encroach on wildlife habitat in burned area near Four Peaks

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

Flashes

Time to Burn

Is the Lone Fire a preview of California-style infernos to come?

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

The Secret Life of Sidney Phillips

Sierra Club lobbyist doubles as Tucson paper's legislative correspondent

FLASHES

SYMINGTON'S PLAN TO GUT GAME AND FISH

VILLAGE OF THE DAMMED

WHEN A LEVEE ON BABBITT RANCHES GAVE WAY, THE HAVASUPAI INDIANS WERE LITERALLY PUSHED AGAINST THE WALL. NOW THEY'RE PUSHING BACK.

LAND OF THE FREE-FOR-ALL

WITH PROPOSITION 300--THE PRIVATE-PROPERTY-RIGHTS MEASURE--ARIZONA ONCE AGAIN BECOMES A BATTLEGROUND FOR A NATIONAL RIGHT-WING CRUSADE

HIGH BRAU EATS

THE PRODIGAL SONWHEN YOU'RE CHAIRMAN OF GAME AND FISH AND YOUR FAMILY IS IN THE TIMBER BUSINESS THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL

GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME CONSTITUTION

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND INDUSTRY OVER PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS HAS TAKEN ON A RELIGIOUS FERVOR

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

WHOSE WOODS ARE THESE?

THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP; THE FOREST SERVICE HAS PROMISES TO KEEP