A new poll of likely voters in Arizona signals strong, bipartisan support for a permanent ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon – and hope for the passage of the Grand Canyon Protection Act, a bill that would permanently ban the practice. Read more»

Saguaro National Park is relying on the public's help in photographing one of its more mysterious inhabitants: the Gila monster. The park is continuing research that has been going for more than 15 years, with an increased focus on pictures of the lizard submitted by park visitors. Read more»

Based on significant evidence that PFOA and PFOS may present a substantial danger to human health or the environment, the two chemical compounds used for decades earned the hazardous substances designation under federal Superfund law. Read more»

Since 2021, Lake Mead has been boosted by water from the Gila River Indian Community and the Colorado River Indian Tribes, but as historic water cuts were announced, different decisions by the tribes illustrate the difficult choices in the Colorado River Basin. Read more»

The Inflation Reduction Act includes $1.5 billion for the Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program - funding that could potentially help Tucson purchase saplings, hire labor and expand its youth program as part of the city's Million Trees initiative. Read more»

The Colorado River, which supplies water to more than 40 million Americans and supports food production for the rest of the country, is in imminent peril - but the hidden, underground water crisis might be even worse. Read more»

Sun Tran will purchase 19 electric vehicles and ten charging stations as part of the company’s plan to have all electric and compressed natural gas buses by 2028. Read more»

Arizona legislators met Wednesday with experts to discuss the environmental challenges to increasing the supply of affordable housing in the state as a recent study ranked Arizona among the five worst states for affordable housing. Read more»

A one-year $100,000 project will help remove invasive buffelgrass from Tumamoc Hill and "A" Mountain, but millions of dollars in long-term funding are still needed to eradicate the fire-prone weed from near Tucson, U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva said Wednesday. Read more»

One day after the Biden administration prevailed in a Fifth Circuit order upholding its suspension of new oil and gas leases on public land, a federal judge whose preliminary injunction was vacated by the appeals court issued a permanent block on the pause. Read more»

Drought and fires exacerbated by climate change are expected to permanently alter the ecosystems of Southern Arizona's mountain "sky islands," with parts of the high-elevation ecosystems at risk of disappearing. Read more»

Studies suggest PFAS chemicals are in 98% of Americans’ bodies, where they’ve been associated with many health problems - and while scientists are working on methods to capture these synthetic chemicals and destroy them, it isn’t simple. Read more»

Tucson City Manager Mike Ortega is recommending the council in 2023 resume taking every bloody pint of Central Arizona Project water its freaking entitled to get, as the feds reduce Arizona's allotment. Read more»

Arizona's political leaders warned any action to prevent climate change would cost too much. Get ready to spend because climate change is here and taking 592,000 acre feet a year of water from the state. Read more»

The climate change and health care bill signed into law this week will lower U.S. carbon emissions by a gigaton by 2030, a new analysis from the Department of Energy said, further cementing claims already made about the the bill's clean energy programs. Read more»