Stories tagged: "environment"

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Environment Supreme Court Clean Water Ruling Has Arizona Ranchers and Environmentalists at Odds

“If you love swimming in polluted creeks, this ruling is for you.”

Lillie Boudreaux Lillie Boudreaux May 31, 2023 9:44 am MST
Environment Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, D, speaks at the Capitol, Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Phoenix. Hobbs was discussing newly announced water conservation funding for Gila River Indian Community and water users across the Colorado River Basin aimed to protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Environment Hobbs: Arizonans Won’t ‘Be Forced to Cut Their Water Use’ Because of Colorado River Plan

Arizona has taken on the bulk of the conservation efforts, with over half of the 1 trillion gallons of water saved in the plan coming from the state.

Ole Braatelien Ole Braatelien May 30, 2023 2:32 pm MST
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Environment Hobbs Announces Plan to Save Nearly 1 Trillion Gallons of Colorado River Water

In exchange for using less water, municipalities will receive federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to develop long-term water system efficiencies.

Camaron Stevenson Camaron Stevenson May 22, 2023 10:40 am MST
Climate Buses line up outside Tempe High School in this 2021 file photo. Bus driver is just one of the positions that school administrators around the state say they have trouble filling, along with teachers, nurses, custodians, secretaries and more, as school salaries often can't compete with the private sector. (File photo by Kelly Richmond/Cronkite News)
Climate Isaac School District Celebrates Federal Funding for Safer, Clean-Energy School Buses

The funding specifically comes from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, which provides school districts with rebates to replace existing school buses with clean models.

Isabel Soisson Isabel Soisson May 10, 2023 1:00 pm MST
Climate FILE - The late afternoon temperature hits 115-degrees in downtown Phoenix, Monday, June 19, 2017. As heat waves fueled by climate change arrive earlier, grow more intense and last longer, people over 60 who are more vulnerable to high temperatures are increasingly at risk of dying from heat-related causes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin,File)
Climate Deadly Heat Waves Threaten Older People in Arizona as Summer Nears

Healthcare clinics and local governments are being tested to keep older people safe as extreme temperatures approach in summer.

Associated Press Associated Press May 2, 2023 8:00 am MST

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WASHINGTON - APRIL 19: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., leaves Sen. Mark Kelly's office after meeting with Sen. Kelly and Rep. Ruben Gallego in the Hart Senate Office Building on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Education BREAKING: Sinema Joins Republicans in Vote to Overturn Student Loan Debt Relief
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RIO VERDE, ARIZONA - FEBRUARY 26: Leigh Harris filled jugs with rain water she captured outside her home on February 26, 2023 near Scottsdale, Arizona. Harris lives in Rio Verde Foothills an unincorporated development in Maricopa County. When the Department of the Interior issued its first-ever formal water-shortage declaration for the Colorado River the City of Scottsdale stopped allowing Rio Verde Foothills to use the citys water. Harris put in a $14,000 system to catches rain water at her home. On top of that system she also puts out buckets and a kids pool to capture rain water. She and her husband primarily use the water to flush the toilets. Each gallon is one flush, said Harris. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) Environment Explained: Here’s How the Rio Verde Foothills Water Crisis Could Be Solved
Climate FILE - This photo shows Colorado River water running through farmland on the Colorado River Indian Tribes reservation, Feb. 19, 2018 in Parker, Ariz. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)
Climate New Grants From Infrastructure Law To Help Arizona’s Water Problems

Several local advocates say that these new grants will help all Arizonans reduce their water usage, which will not only benefit local communities, but farms and ecosystems as well.

Isabel Soisson Isabel Soisson April 26, 2023 12:45 pm MST
Environment A pink sunrise as seen from Hopi Point on the South Rim in this photo from 2018 - when visitors spent $1.8 billion at national parks in Arizona. Spending plummeted last year, along with visitors, but numbers are starting to turn around. (Photo by M Quinn, National Park Service/Creative Commons) NPS Photofrom the Division of Visitor and Resource Protection sits at the edge of the canyon, looking down with binoculars during a search operation (March 2021). NPS Photo/S. Shoemaker photo. during the total lunar eclipse of January 31, 2018. #GrandCanyon #Arizona #Sunrise #LunarEclipse #Geology #NoFilter #ImageDescription: soft pink light illuminating a mile-deep canyon landscape of colorful peaks and cliffs with a river flowing at the very bottom. NPS/M.Quinn
Environment Tribal Leaders, Lawmakers Want New 1.1 Million Acre Monument in Arizona

Tribal leaders joined state lawmakers Tuesday to call on President Joe Biden to set aside more than 1.1 million acres around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument.

Alexis Waiss Alexis Waiss April 25, 2023 10:16 am MST