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Final ‘Grandmother’ Cottonwood Toppled, Protesters Arrested in Arizona

By Stephanie Casanova, AZ Luminaria

A cottonwood tree in Arizona
The EPA finalized its repeal of most greenhouse gas emissions standards for coal- and natural gas-fired power plants in September. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

21 States Sue EPA to Reinstate Climate Pollution Rules for Power Plants

By Lisa Sorg

The construction site of South32’s Hermosa mine in Patagonia, Ariz., on Feb. 18. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Sue Federal Agencies Over Nation’s First Fast-Tracked Critical Minerals Mine

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of Meta’s El Paso data center. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta Data Center

By Martha Pskowski

A sign marks the location of a polling place as residents vote in Wisconsin’s primary election on Aug. 11 in Madison. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

These State Elections Could Reshape Climate and Energy Policy

By Dan Gearino

Cassandra Becerra, the Arizona State Director for Mountain Mamas, speaks at a press conference on Saturday kickstarting Latino Conservation Week and highlighting the threats facing Ironwood Forest National Monument. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Latino Conservation Week Kicks Off at Threatened Arizona National Monument

By Wyatt Myskow

A sign warns of radiation danger at the site of an abandoned uranium mine on Navajo Nation land in Mariano Lake, N.M. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Mexico Bans Uranium Leasing on State Lands

By Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

People stand at the bottom of a boat ramp that now ends hundreds of feet above the water levels of Lake Powell on Aug. 18 near Page, Ariz. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says

By Jake Bolster

Boats are seen in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead on July 25 in Nevada. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Fearing ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Water Cuts, Nevada Sues Feds Over Colorado River Plan

By Steven Rodas

Mina Guli runs through haze during her nearly 1,800-mile journey down the Colorado River on June 21. Credit: Andrew King

Wildfires and Extreme Heat Challenge Water Activist’s Attempt to Run the Length of the Colorado River

By Maya McDaniel

Visitors view the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell from the Carl Hayden Visitor Center on Thursday in Page, Ariz. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Federal Plan Makes Steep Colorado River Water Cuts to Arizona, California and Nevada

By Jake Bolster

Joni Lapahie and Dáilan Long, residents of the Burnham Chapter community on the Navajo Nation, speak at a press conference against a proposed coal mine expansion near their homes on July 20 at Window Rock, Ariz. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Navajo Mine Applied for a Huge Expansion, but Tribal Members Say They’re Cut Out of the Permitting Process

By Wyatt Myskow

People fish along the Deer Creek Reservoir near Heber City, Utah, on Feb. 7, as the state experiences about one-third of its normal early-February snowpack. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Global Warming Unmakes Winter in the US West

By Bob Berwyn

The dry riverbed of the Rio Grande is seen next to pecan orchards in Radium Springs, N.M., before annual water releases began on May 30.

The Clock Is Ticking for New Mexico to Cut Rio Grande Water Use

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

Energy Fuels’ Pinyon Plain uranium mine, located a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park and inside Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Arizona Regulators Are Raising Contaminant Limits for a Uranium Mine With an Arsenic Problem

By Wyatt Myskow, Maya McDaniel

Construction is seen at the two mine shafts for South32’s Hermosa project in Patagonia, Ariz., on Feb. 18. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Feds Grant Final Approval for Arizona Mine Situated in Critical Habitat for Jaguars and Mexican Spotted Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

Last year, the town of Estancia, N.M., asked residents to conserve water because its wells were not producing adequately. Credit: Town of Estancia

A New Mexico Town Is Running Dry. An Immigration Detention Center Is Its Biggest Water Customer.

By Martha Pskowski

Volunteers work to create a pond as part of a habitat restoration project for the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog in the White Mountains of Arizona. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Can Clusters of Human-Constructed Ponds in the Arizona Desert Save a Threatened Frog?

By Wyatt Myskow

People paddle the Rio Grande with downtown Albuquerque in the background. Credit: City of Albuquerque

A New Book Tells the Story of Albuquerque Through the Rio Grande

By Martha Pskowski

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