Environment

‘I often feel like I’m going to faint’: Airport workers detail dangerous working conditions in complaint to Arizona workplace safety watchdog.

Here are all the records that the blistering heat this summer has broken so far.

A new study outlines a nightmarish scenario for the Valley.

Hundreds of climate activists protested in Phoenix on Saturday. Their message? “Build Back Better is not dead yet.”

Investors are banking that they will hit the jackpot for extracting helium from Arizona’s state lands and private property.

Environmental investigators have found “very significant” groundwater contamination beneath a residential neighborhood in west Phoenix.

When individuals try to break free of the utility company’s grip over their electric bill by installing solar it can be a difficult hurdle to jump. That’s by design, advocates claim.

Hundreds of homeowners in the Arizona desert could lose access to water in months and everyone in charge is passing the blame.

An effort to prevent flooding in northwest Scottsdale should save homeowners money, but it might cost them even more.

Each year, Arizona trashed $9.5 billion of food across the state or 1.7 million tons, as No. 1 in the nation for sending food to the landfill.

Herpetologists are celebrating.

Becker Boards, a private billboard company, drafted the plan that officials are considering.

Yes, the flies in Phoenix are worse than normal.

“Excessive” means something different in Phoenix, where residents can count on a heat wave every summer.

“I think the fire department needs to get their personnel acclimated to the heat.”

Last year, monsoon season was the driest on record. This year, so far, has not been much better.

Heat deaths in Arizona reached a record high last year. But making good shade is difficult, expensive, and can be water-intensive.

Arizona officials are bucking activists’ demands to only permit the Pinyon Plain Mine to be closed.

Hawkstone Mining, an Australian mining firm, wants to build a lithium mine in Wikieup, Arizona.

The agencies are moving forward with a plan to revise a Trump-era rule change that put 90 percent of Arizona waterways at risk.

In court documents, the Biden administration argued that the controversial Oak Flat land swap shouldn’t be stopped.

The proposal would require that developers fence-off existing trees located on construction sites to protect them.