Arizona Environmental News

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Hot Air Alert: President Obama Spins State of the Union Speech to Claim Credit for Inherited Energy Successes
...ff parts of the Arctic to offshore drilling, blocked uranium mining on one million acres of land in Arizona, withdrew oil and natural gas leases in Utah, and...

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Chairman Hastings' Statement on the President's State of the Union Address
... offshore oil and natural gas leases, abandoning Yucca Mountain, banning uranium mining in parts of Arizona, delaying the development of oil shale, retroacti...

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Salt River Plan Opens Community Solar Plan to Businesses
...sses to purchase solar power from the 20 megawatt Copper Crossing Solar Ranch, located in Florence, Arizona. The Copper Crossing Solar Ranch currently provid...

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
White House Claims Support for U.S. Energy Production, Actions Tell an Entirely Different Story
... Administration just impose a 20-year ban on uranium mining on one million acres of federal land in Arizona? Why is he refusing to make a decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline? ...

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
President Obama's Jobs Council Echoes House Republicans' Call for Increased American Energy Production
...act opposite direction of the Council's recommendations-whether it's blocking new uranium mining in Arizona, slow walking offshore energy production, canceli...

Monday, January 9th, 2012
Hastings: Obama Administration Once Again Blocks U.S. Energy Production, Costs American Jobs
...ar's announcement to impose a 20-year ban on uranium mining on one million acres of federal land in Arizona: "The Obama Administration is putting politics...

Thursday, January 5th, 2012
E.P.A. Issues Arizona Toxics Inventory Data for 2010
...CO - Toxic chemicals managed, treated or released into the environment from facilities operating in Arizona increased in 2010 when compared to 2009, accordin...

Friday, December 16th, 2011
E.P.A. orders Douglas drinking water system to reduce arsenic
...ring mineral found primarily in groundwater. "Clean, safe drinking water is a basic need for every Arizonan," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administr...

Thursday, December 15th, 2011
U.S.-Canada Arctic Ocean survey partnership saved costs, increased data
...ss of 320,000 square kilometers (123,000 square miles) of the Arctic seafloor, or about the size of Arizona. "These data provided high resolution maps to...