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  Customer Service Employees Are Desperate to Escape Phoenix's Water Department

  May 16 at 10:07 a.m.

  Complaints to the city's Equal Opportunity Department have skyrocketed in recent years.

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  Arizona Environmental Agency Wants to Change Regulations for Coal Ash Dumps

  May 13 at 8 a.m.

  The sludgy leftovers from burning coal contain mercury, lead, arsenic, and other toxic substances that can leach into groundwater.

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  Broken Homes: How Award-Winning, Dream 'Green' Houses Turned Into Nightmares

  May 9 at 7 a.m.

  As homeowners started discovering major problems with their new houses, neither the builder nor the state's Registrar of Contractors seemed interested in fixing them.

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  Ozone Pollution in Phoenix Can't Get Much Worse From Climate Change

  April 30 at 7 a.m.

  "In fact, temperature is not the best predictor for ozone episodes in most of Arizona."

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  APS Quits Anti-Clean-Air Lobbying Group Under Scrutiny by House Democrats

  April 22 at 8 a.m.

  The Utility Air Regulatory Group is run by a law firm where the EPA's top air-quality official was, until very recently, a partner.

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  After Colorado River Drought Plan, What's Next for Water in Arizona?

  April 12 at 7 a.m.

  "It's always about bringing in water from someplace else," said Sandy Bahr of the Sierra Club.