Arizona has joined about 20 other states suing the Trump administration over its efforts to eliminate emissions standards for fossil fuel power plants.
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency got rid of its rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, saying it would save the energy industry $300 billion.
Now Arizona and other states and cities are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to strike down the EPA’s decision, arguing it was made illegally.
In a statement, Attorney General Kris Mayes said the state is already experiencing extreme heat, and eliminating those standards puts Arizonans health at risk.
The repeal of those rules comes as Arizona’s utilities have about a dozen new natural gas power projects planned for the coming years.
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he event, called PhiusCon, is being put on by a nonprofit called Phius, which certifies professionals in its passive building standard. This is the first time in the conference’s more than two-decade history that it’s taking place in the Southwest. -
Amazon wants to help save the Colorado River. That is a good thing. But commentator Herb Paine asks: Is it enough? -
The Forest Service is closing off a long stretch of the border to protesters and the public alike, raising issues of transparency as they claim its unrelated to confrontations. -
The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Bird Alliance have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming it has violated the Endangered Species Act. The Verde River is home to several species protected by the act. The nonprofits claim the species' habitats are impacted by illegal livestock grazing. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls.
