Environment

“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.

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.