As bulldozers and heavy equipment accelerate the pace of destruction on properties owned by Hudbay Minerals in the Santa Rita Mountains, environmental groups, local tribes and agricultural interests in the region continue the fight to halt mining operations there. Read more»

Gov. Doug Ducey announced Friday that he has allocated $25 million in federal funds to the Department of Environmental Quality to partner them with Tucson Water in efforts to treat PFAS near the Tucson International Airport. Read more»

Arizona local, tribal and labor leaders were at the White House Friday to hear administration officials highlight the billions in recent federal funding - Arizona is set to get $1.9 billion in 2022 - that is coming to states for everything from roads to water to broadband. Read more»

Arizona could have as many as 100,000 abandoned mines, many leaching toxic minerals into the state’s waterways, and state environmental officials said cleanup has been hampered by the fear of litigation - but a proposed federal “good Samaritan” law could help address the issue. Read more»

Oro Valley staff will present Town Council members with the option to (maybe) regulate short-term rentals. Violations could carry a punishment of $3,500 or suspension of a license to operate such a business. 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»

A government advisory lowered acceptable amounts of certain PFAS chemicals to levels so low they can’t be tested by any modern laboratory - now, industry reps see exploding costs while environmentalists see a victory — mostly. Read more»

Likely PFAS contamination had been found around at least 704 current and former military bases across the country, and advocates say the military should be doing more to address the problem and care for the families who have been affected by it. Read more»

PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which are a large group of human-made chemicals that are used widely in consumer products and industry - chemicals the EPA recently issued new warnings about in drinking water even at very low levels. Read more»

A letter of opposition to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, which recently issued an aquifer protection plan permit, is the latest attempt - after years of legal battles - by the Havasupai Tribe to oppose the Pinion Plain uranium mine. Read more»

A group of public employees said the Biden administration is failing to provide scientific evidence regarding its definition of dangerous forever chemicals leading to more claims that the current definition is too narrow and the EPA is missing some toxins. Read more»

Critics fear that Florida’s move to assume authority over wetland management could open the floodgates for more states to claim Section 404 authority - but the hurdles that have mostly stymied such efforts for decades remain significant. Read more»

Barbara Escobar, the interim director for the county's Department of Environmental Quality, will take over the role permanently starting on May 8, Pima County announced Monday. Read more»

Local leaders in Southern Arizona came together Wednesday to throw their support behind the Environmental Justice for All Act, a congressional bill that aims to treat pollution in communities of color as a civil rights violation and create local funding for environmental cleanup. Read more»

The Uranium Producers of America are expected to use the crisis in Ukraine to plead for more taxpayer-funded subsidies, so they can ramp up production quickly and cheaply. This may sound like an opportunistic ploy to use a brutal war as a profit-making scheme. Make no mistake, it is. Read more»