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Lakes Mead, Powell at risk again from drought despite major conservation efforts

by Melissa | Sep 17, 2020 | Environment, Government

Lakes Mead, Powell at risk again from drought despite major conservation efforts by Tony Davis | Tucson.com For the second time in two years, federal officials are warning that Lake Mead could drop in five to six years to levels low enough to possibly warrant major...

Water leaders talk about how Arizona will sustain future growth

by Melissa | Sep 2, 2020 | Development, Environment

Water leaders talk about how Arizona will sustain future growth by Victoria Harker | Chamber Business News As Arizona faces climate change head on, water leaders are taking steps to ensure that development can continue, particularly in the most populous central part...

Gasoline-dispensing, surface-coating rules sent to EPA

by Melissa | Aug 19, 2020 | Environment, Government

Gasoline-dispensing, surface-coating rules sent to EPA by Richard Dyer | Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent Revisions to surface-coating and gasoline-dispensing rules in Apache Junction are being sent to the EPA for review. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors...

UA researchers propose climate-smart desert food production

by Melissa | Aug 13, 2020 | Economy, Environment, Organizations

UA researchers propose climate-smart desert food production Pinal Central As the National Weather Service warns that a heat wave spreading across the southwestern United States is of a “magnitude rare, dangerous and deadly,” a team of scientists, led by...

Apple, Pepsi, Target and others to get solar energy through deal with Salt River Project

by Melissa | Aug 5, 2020 | Development, Eloy, Environment

Apple, Pepsi, Target and others to get solar energy through deal with Salt River Project by Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Salt River Project announced on Tuesday a new solar plant to provide renewable energy to large customers including Apple, PepsiCo, Target,...

COVID-19 stopped Arizona’s public groundwater debate – and just when it was getting good

by Melissa | May 11, 2020 | Development, Environment, Government

COVID-19 stopped Arizona’s public groundwater debate – and just when it was getting good Opinion: Public groundwater planning efforts have mostly ground to a halt, and just when the work was pivoting from fact-finding to solution-making. by Joanna Allhands...