Desert Environmental News, 2/24

Two Coconino County Supervisors on the Monument Advisory Committee for the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, praised a judge’s decision to toss a lawsuit that would undermine the monument.

Uranium haul trucks are once again leaving the Pinyon Plain Mine.

As of Feb. 14, the snow water equivalent at Webster Flat stands at 35% of the median, concerning local water authorities.

At the annual Environmental Day at the Arizona Legislature, conservation advocates talked about the issues they wanted lawmakers to address.

Las Vegas and Reno top the list of the nation’s fastest-warming cities.

The Bureau of Land Management recently issued a press release regarding the use of electric bikes on mountain bike trails in Iron and Beaver counties.

On Friday, Big Bend National Park leadership announced that major construction planned for the Chisos Basin would be delayed until July.

PRESIDIO — On Thursday, about two dozen people gathered to cheer on the Big Bend Conservation Alliance (BBCA) as it broke ground on its latest long-term initiative, “Everything’s Connected in Presidio.” The project, one of just five in Texas funded through the EPA Change Grant program, aims to create sustainable green infrastructure in Presidio. 

The plant will become a natural gas peaker plant.

Nevada voters don’t support reductions to national monuments or gutting federal agencies, a Colorado College poll shows.

"We’ve been in this turmoil for weeks now and I think it’s designed to break you down and get you to leave. It is infuriating they did this to so many people.”

Daily particulate matter pollution in El Paso is the highest it’s been for this time of year since at least 2000.

Multiple conservation and restoration projects along the watershed could face a reduction in federal funding.

A Republican measure that would allow large industrial energy users like data centers build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona cleared its first hurdle.

Current legislative efforts are not sufficient to address the critical threats to Great Salt Lake, or even to change its downward trajectory.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is petitioning Congress for permission to drill under Sloan Canyon, a protected cultural resource south of Henderson.

Searchlight connected with three abruptly terminated federal employees, who offer deep insights on the meaning of the purge that just happened.

Both visitor centers at Saguaro National Park in Tucson will be closed one day a week amid federal budget cuts. Here's what to know if you're going.

The Trump administration's mass firing of probationary employees raises red flags for those working in Arizona's federal public lands.

The complaint claims the order to remove land near Chaco Canyon from oil and gas leasing could cost residents millions of dollars in lost royalties.

The American Sand Association is reminding RV owners and outdoor enthusiasts of the strict regulations regarding the disposal of gray and black water in California.

A bill that would declare Slot Canyon New Mexico’s 36th state park remains in committee after being introduced on Jan. 29. 

Debate has been heated and controversial.

The last time Washington County experienced a state of extreme drought was March 2023.

Boulder City received a $1.9 million grant in 2023 from the U.S. Economic Development Authority to retrofit every municipal light with energy-efficient, light-pollution-reducing fixtures.

Chevron will now be allowed to use the disputed rights at the mine site for remediation and can transfer some rights to local communities.

Saguaro National Park has announced that its visitor centers will be closed on Mondays "until further notice," amid the Trump Administration's chaotic cuts to the federal workforce.

Around 40% of the crews that oversee the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest in southern New Mexico were laid off.

On Jan. 31, the State of Utah confirmed and quantified water rights – totaling 81,500 acre-feet per year – now belong to the Navajo Nation in Utah.

The worst measles outbreak in etvnews.com/articles/local-news/navajo-nation-and-state-of-utah-reach-another-water-rights-milestoneTexas in decades is occurring mostly among unvaccinated children.

“It’s been quiet,” said Gail Kocourek, a long-time volunteer with the Tucson Samaritans. “There’s nothing going on. The numbers had already dropped a lot under Biden.”

Guided tours at Carlsbad Caverns National Park have been suspended, an Albuquerque-based tribal college has no tutors left and veterans could face paperwork delays after President Donald Trump dramatically cut

Grant, similar projects aim to ‘protect and enhance’ more than 13,000 acres of the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands.