Environment

If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.

The Agency claimed that "California’s standards could impose costs on ports, shipping and supply chains," but Environmental groups and California regulators dispute that interpretation.

The rule change could also block future administrations from ever regulating power plant emissions again, and one Arizona county already failing on air quality could be among the first to feel it.

This led to a nine percent increase in SOx emissions, a 25 percent increase in particulate matter 2.5 and an 18 percent jump in nitrogen oxide emissions.

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.

We’re talking seriously impactful breakthroughs, per this Inside Climate News report, as Diane and local citizen scientists now oversee a $50 (FIFTY!) million settlement—the largest clean water EPA penalty ever.

The glyphosate residues showing up in food are surprising and worrisome.

Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.

The administration’s agenda expands protections for some, but still excludes almost all of the 10 billion land animals farmed for food in the U.S. each year.