Arizona Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in Arizona courtesy of Environmental Health News.
Closing coal plant a numbers game.
Members of several conservation groups opposed to coal mining have contributed to a report saying the owners of Navajo Generating Station in Page would be best off financially if they closed the coal plant.
Brewer questions fuel-efficiency rules.
Arizona motorists looking for new cars in 2012 may escape being forced by state regulations to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Arizona quits Western climate endeavor.
Arizona will no longer participate in a groundbreaking attempt to limit greenhouse-gas emissions across the West, a change in policy by Gov. Jan Brewer that will include a review of all the state's efforts to combat climate change.
Mine dust not dangerous, residents told.
Asarco officials told Rancho Resort residents Friday that an analysis of tailings from their community showed the dust is not much different from soil samples taken nearby and contain no dangerous levels of metals.
Amid state's push for solar power, water-supply worries arise.
Arizona can offer solar-energy developers legendary sun-drenched skies and thousands of empty square miles but not nearly so ample a supply of a third essential resource. Water.
'Tea-party' protesters in Scottsdale target emission rules.
Executives from several large, publicly traded electric utilities were greeted in Scottsdale on Thursday by a group of "tea-party" protesters demanding that the companies fight global-warming legislation.
Huckelberry will ask for maximum Asarco fine.
Asarco's failure to keep tailings dust from blowing away at its Mission mine during two dust storms last year could cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said Wednesday.
Christmas wood fires cause air violations.
Residents ignored a call for no wood-burning fires over Christmas, causing the Valley to exceed federal health standards Dec. 24-25, county officials reported Monday.
EPA warnings spark effort that may cut deadly Pinal County storms.
Pinal County and state officials are about to launch a long, tangled air cleanup effort that could reduce the number, size and scope of dust clouds in future storms.
New installations mean new regulations.
Solar and wind energy may be the wave of the future, and it's a wave more and more Yavapai County residents are surfing.