Environment

Wildfires may look the same as 2020, but the monsoon season could return.

A large delivery of rock and debris to South Mountain Park/Preserve by a homebuilder last year was authorized without a paper trail.

Sacred land would be destroyed.

“If we’re lucky, we could get a storm.”

“We don’t believe any hazardous material dropped into the lake,” says Andrea Glass, Tempe assistant fire chief.

The threat is real.

Locals have opposed Canyon Mine, south of the Grand Canyon, for decades.

174 Power Global is undeterred by the state’s uncertain regulatory environment for renewable energy.

Without those protections, “people are free to pretty much do whatever they want,” said Brett Hartl of the Center for Biological Diversity.

At one site, lead contamination was 70 times the legal limit. No cleanup has been done.

The company plans to use the property to store tailings, the toxic, sludgy byproduct of mining.

That’s about the size of Manhattan.

“I can’t wait to spread the word to the other guys,” one crewmember said.

The town and Italian developer plan to submit their new proposal for a Forest Service permit within a week.

It still hasn’t cleaned up the contamination, which comes from target shooting, and according to a federal probe, it never warned the public.

“Everybody is going after the same limited supplies of water right now.”

The proposal aims in part at bolstering Arizona’s general stream adjudications, which have dragged on for four decades.

This is just the latest in Tempe pastor Steven Anderson’s hateful rhetoric, which has targeted the gay community and Jewish people, among others.

Preparing for water shortages in Phoenix is proving tough for the city and residents alike.

The state says that under Lean Management principles, it is doing more with less to protect the environment and public health.

But that won’t stop federal rollbacks that could gut protections for Arizona’s precious water supplies.

Hospitals and sterilization companies can’t explain it all.