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Dig Yourself Out of That Hole Feds lambasted for neglecting cleanup of abandoned mines		28 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:00 PM on 28 Jul 2008 Thousands of abandoned mines across the U.S. West pose hazards to the public, according to a strongly worded audit from the Interior Department inspector general. The Bureau of Land Management's mine program "has been undermined, neglected, and marginalized," says the report, and many easily accessible mines have "dangerously dilapidated structures, serious envi ...
Topics: Arizona, Bureau of Land Management, California, Department of Interior, mining, Nevada, news, toxics (all these topics)

West Foot Forward Western states unveil draft cap-and-trade scheme		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 24 Jul 2008 The Western Climate Initiative has unveiled a draft proposal for a regional cap-and-trade program that would kick off in 2012. The 11 states and provinces involved -- Arizona, British Columbia, California, Manitoba, Montana, New Mexico, Ontario, Oregon, Quebec, Utah, and Washington -- would impose an as-yet-determined greenhouse-gas emissions limit on industries and utilities, then allow laggards ...
Topics: Arizona, business, California, Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Montana, New Mexico, news, Oregon ... (all these topics)

Grand can't, yon House blocks uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The House Natural Resources Committee pulled a rarely-used move today to block uranium mining in one million acres of public land near the Grand Canyon, using their authority to order the Bush administration to immediately halt mining claims. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chair of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest and Public Lands, suggested using the emergency move, which is apparently a provision that Congress hasn't utilized since 1983. They voted 20-2 ...
Topics: Arizona, Congress, mining, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

The Wall's in Your Court Enviros' border-fence appeal turned down by Supreme Court		23 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 23 Jun 2008 Homeland Security officials can continue to waive environmental laws to speed construction of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club. The groups had argued that the eco-law-waiving power given to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff in 2005 was unconstitutional. The fence section n ...
Topics: Arizona, Department of Homeland Security, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Hope for a Desert Delinquent What Phoenix, the poster child for environmental ills, is doing right	Lisa Selin Davis	13 May 2008	Grist Feature
Can Phoenix remake its desert-gobbling ways? In order for Phoenix to truly be a green city, it would have to be brown. Or not brown, exactly, but the sandy shade of the mountains that surround it: the jagged peaks and parched hills that enclose the Valley of the Sun. These days, though, Phoenix is a less-natural shade of brown; a ring of smoggy pollution known locall ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

Unexcused absences Arizona Republic calls out senator for not supporting solar	Adam Browning	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
With absolutely world-class solar installation, rapidly growing in-state demand, and prime location next to one of the largest renewable energy markets in the world (that would be California), building a solar industry in Arizona would seem like a no-brainer. I certainly think so. But, more importantly, 87 percent of Arizonans do, too. The remaining 13 percent appears to include Sen. McCain, who has failed to show up for any of the votes to extend the critical 3 ...
Topics: Arizona, energy, John McCain, politics, solar voltaic power, state politics (all these topics)

Deep Impact Uranium mine near Grand Canyon blocked		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 07 Apr 2008 A judge has blocked a British mining company's plan to build an exploratory uranium mine near the Grand Canyon. U.S. District Judge Mary Murguia agreed with litigious environmental groups that considering the location of the proposed mine and the risks associated with uranium mining, VANE Minerals Group should be required to conduct further environmental reviews before moving forward. sources:� Associated Press, ...
Topics: Arizona, energy, mining, news, public lands (all these topics)

Water, water everywhere, but ... World Water Day, Grand Canyon film highlight water crisis	Sarah van Schagen	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Saturday is World Water Day, a time set aside by the U.N. during which member nations are encouraged to address the worldwide water crisis. This year's theme is the 'International Year of Sanitation' (sexy!), which is aimed at 'accelerat[ing] progress for 2.6 billion people worldwide who are without proper sanitation facilities.' For more on this topic, check out the Guardian Weekly's special supplement 'Every Drop Counts.' [PDF] But World Water Day is also mean ...
Topics: Arizona, green living, movies, national parks, water crisis (all these topics)

Alternate futures Two huge power plants offer different paths forward	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In Sweetwater, Texas, a company called Tenaska has applied to build what will be the nation's first bona fide "clean coal" plant -- an IGCC plant that will capture and sequester CO2 emissions. (Said emissions will be used to pump more oil out of the Permian Basin oil fields, which will then be burned and create more CO2, but who's counting?) The 600MW plant is projected to be completed in 2014. Meanwhile, Spanish engineering firm Abengoa has signed a deal w ...
Topics: Arizona, carbon sequestration, coal, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Texas (all these topics)

Solutions When 'hand wringing' isn't enough	Adam Browning	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
If you are worried about Lake Mead drying up, think that reduced snowpack due to climate change might have something to do with it, and are looking for some answers, you could do a lot worse than listen to David Berry of the Western Resource Advocates. I always do, and he's never steered me wrong. See his timely 'Clean Electric Energy Strategy for Arizona' (PDF).
Topics: Arizona, climate, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Dead Mead Lake Mead could run out of water by 2021, says study		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:45 PM on 12 Feb 2008 There's a 50-50 chance that the Arizona- and Nevada-bordering, human-made Lake Mead will become Dry Ditch Mead by 2021, according to a study to be published in the journal Water Resources Research. Oh, and that's a conservative estimate, say the study authors, as is this one: By 2017, there's an equally good chance that water levels in the reservoir could drop so low that the Hoover Dam would be inca ...
Topics: Arizona, California, climate, climate change impacts, Nevada, news, scientific research, water crisis (all these topics)

Curb Uranium Enthusiasm Exploratory uranium mine near Grand Canyon given go-ahead		07 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:22 AM on 07 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service has granted a permit to a British mining company to drill exploratory uranium mines just miles from Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona and just three miles from a popular lookout. Officials in the county voted unanimously to try to stop the exploration, but their opposition has had little effect since the mine is on national forest land. An antiq ...
Topics: Arizona, mining, news, public lands, United States (all these topics)

The success of solar depends on storage Storage helps the sun keep shining even on cloudy days	Kristina & Jason Makansi	22 Dec 2007	Gristmill
New project and technology announcements have kept solar energy in the news lately. But, as with wind, the issues of intermittency and the grid still lurk in the shadows. Some still argue that intermittency isn't a problem, or that it can be solved without storage. In a new piece in the Arizona Daily Star, reporter Tom Beal talks about those issues. As we've previously argued here, here, and here, energy storage has a big role to play in enabling sola ...
Topics: Arizona, solar voltaic power, electricity grid, energy (all these topics)

Report Barred Judge delays work on border fence per insufficient environmental report		11 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:40 PM on 11 Oct 2007 The Bush administration tried to "ram" through an insufficient environmental report and must temporarily cease work on a 1.5-mile-long section of fence on the Arizona-Mexico border, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle agreed with the Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club that federal agencies' three-week-long environmental assessment seemed ...
Topics: Arizona, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

On the non-inevitability of solar Regulatory infrastructure will be crucial	Adam Browning	23 May 2007	Gristmill
I was traveling last week and missed 'solar's inevitable dominance.' I disagree. There is nothing at all inevitable about solar. Sure, the technological potential exists. But the problem is not technology. The technology works great. The problem is policy. Right now, if solar panels were free -- handed out on street corners -- you still would not see market uptake anywhere near the technical potential. Why? Because we do not yet have the right regulatory infrast ...
Topics: Arizona, energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Fire on the mountain Sky Islands getting crispier	Erik Hoffner	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Just when you thought Arizona couldn't get any hotter, right? Yesterday's NYT article on how that state's Sky Islands, the uniquely biodiverse plateaus, are changing due to higher heat regimes is borne out not only by news of such destructive fires but also by daily observation on the ground. A friend who works for the Sky Island Alliance in Tucson says her staff, while out ripping up roads or monitoring wildlife corridors, has been noticing that species are disappearin ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership		27 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership Citing a federal leadership void, the governors of five western U.S. states have formed a regional partnership to cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change. The Western Regional Climate Action Initiative, which inc ...
Topics: Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, state politics, Washington (all these topics)

Video podcasts on climate change From the U. of Arizona	Andrew Dessler	27 Dec 2006	Gristmill
The U. of Arizona put together an impressive seminar series on climate change this past fall. There were seven talks by different U of A professors, covering almost all important aspects of the 'climate change problem.' The talks are now online. I have a video iPod, and I downloaded the seminars and watched them during my recent trip to the AGU meeting. It's a worthwhile way to pass a 4-hour plane trip. If you want to learn more about climate change, I recommend yo ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, climate science, education (all these topics)

The Best Damn Solar Show, Period U.S. renewable advocates say their power is bigger and better		01 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
The Best Damn Solar Show, Period U.S. renewable advocates say their power is bigger and better If America has to resort to renewables, we're gonna do it in butt-kickin' style. Yesterday, Arizona approved rules that would require a 15 percent renewable-energy mix by 2025, pending certification from its attorney general. "Move over California," said utility commissioner Kris Mayes. &qu ...
Topics: Arizona, energy, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Blue skies Why not more solar power in Tucson?	biodiversivist	24 Oct 2006	Gristmill
I did not see a single cloud in my four days in Tucson last week. But what really surprised me was that I also did not see a single solar panel. The University of Arizona, which I suspect may be an intellectual bubble in the middle of Tucson, did spawn a large number of Priuses. Most people drive pickup trucks. The strip malls and subdivisions stretched out until they bumped up against a national park or a mountain range.If there ever was a place suited for solar powe ...
Topics: Arizona, green living, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Give and Takings Property-rights initiatives threaten environmental protections in four Western states	Dan Whipple	16 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Field of dreams or field of nightmares? It depends who you ask. Photos: iStockphoto When you hear the phrase "a perfect storm," it's likely to conjure images of roiling whitecaps, perhaps a daring Coast Guard rescuer dangling from a helicopter to pull half-drowned sailors from their foundering vessels. Chances are the last thing it will bring to mind is land ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Idaho, placemaking, Washington (all these topics)

Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Stream Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Stream Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment An extraordinary experiment got underway this past weekend, as four large valves at the base of Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona were cranked open to release up to 41,000 cubic feet of water a second. Scientists hope that the water will push sand, silt, and sediment downstream to rebuild beaches and sandbars along ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back		05 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back Lake Powell is dropping by a foot every four days, thanks to ongoing drought in the West -- and many enviros couldn't be happier about it. Veteran conservation leader David Brower called the completion of Glen Canyon dam in 1963, and the subsequent drowning of the canyon and its many side canyons to create Lake Powell, the greatest disappoin ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, lakes, Utah (all these topics)

To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental 'To-Do' List with GOP Reps		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental "To-Do" List with GOP Reps Business execs from power, coal, and mining companies are powwowing with more than a dozen GOP lawmakers from Western states this week in Phoenix, Ariz., at a conference focused on energy and environmental issues that boasts, among other activities, a session during which attendees can draw up a " ...
Topics: Arizona, business, political groups, politics, West (all these topics)

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