Environment

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes Revokes Permits for Saudi Arabia to Pump Thousands of Gallons of Water A Minute for Alfalfa

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Score One for Water Conservation in Arizona. During the 2022 campaign, then-Attorney General Democratic Nominee Kris Mayes continually railed against the lunacy of the then Arizona State Government allowing Saudi Arabia water drilling rights in LaPaz County to irrigate for alfalfa crops. Fast forward to Earth Day weekend, 2023, now Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes … Read more

Hobbs, Gallego, Romero, and Giles Celebrate Earth Day

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Arizona’s Governor and Mayors of the Grand Canyon State’s three largest cities took time to honor and celebrate Earth Day yesterday (April 22, 2023.) Earth Day has been celebrated since the bipartisan actions of Republicans and Democrats (notably Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson) during the Nixon Administration strongly reacted to a series of environmental disasters in … Read more

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Discusses Her First 100 Days in Office

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In her first 100 days in office, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has had two roles as the Grand Canyon State’s New Chief Executive. First, she is charting a new center-left people-first course for the state away from the right-wing plutocratic and narrow cultural conservative priorities of the Ducey tenure. Arizonans can see that in her … Read more

Hobbs and Gallego React to the Latest Department of Interior Report Regarding the Colorado River

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A week after Governor Katie Hobbs hosted a gathering of local, tribal, state, and federal Arizona leaders to discuss Arizona Drought Resilience Infrastructure Plans and funding, the “Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to potentially revise the current interim operating guidelines for the near-term operation of Glen … Read more

In her State of the City Address, Mayor Kate Gallego Declares Phoenix is the Future and City to Watch

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“Phoenix now is our time. The Future is Phoenix, and the Future is everywhere we look: In a TSMC manufacturing facility. In our affordable housing communities. On rooftops covered in solar panels. In community college classrooms. In the shade of a newly planted tree. Regardless of what the future may hold – Phoenix is the … Read more