Mountain West

Two Areas in Rural Arizona Might Finally Gain Protection of Their Groundwater This Year

Residents in the Sulphur Springs Valley in southeastern Arizona are tired of waiting for the state legislature to protect groundwater in rural Arizona, where water security is increasingly at risk from over-pumping and a longstanding drought.

By Aydali Campa

As Lake Powell Hits Landmark Low, Arizona Looks to a $1 Billion Investment and Mexican Seawater to Slake its Thirst

By Aydali Campa

The West Sizzled in a November Heat Wave and Snow Drought

By Bob Berwyn

Bill Gates’ Vision for Next-Generation Nuclear Power in Wyoming Coal Country

By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, and Judy Fahys, Inside Climate News

Q&A: A Republican Congressman Hopes to Spread a New GOP Engagement on Climate from Washington, D.C. to Glasgow

By Judy Fahys

From a Raft in the Grand Canyon, the West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View

By Judy Fahys

A Crisis Of Water And Power On The Colorado River

Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest

By Judy Fahys

As the US Pursues Clean Energy and the Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement, Communities Dependent on the Fossil Fuel Economy Look for a Just Transition

By Judy Fahys

The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes

By Judy Fahys

In the West, Signs in the Snow Warn That a 20-Year Drought Will Persist and Intensify

By Bob Berwyn, Judy Fahys

Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’

By Judy Fahys

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

A Surge From an Atmospheric River Drove California’s Latest Climate Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

Climate Change Ravaged the West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Many Fear 2021 Will Be Worse

By Judy Fahys

Congress Passed a Bipartisan Conservation Law. Then the Trump Administration Got in its Way

By Judy Fahys

If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?

By Judy Fahys

Energizing People Who Play Outside to Exercise Their Civic Muscles at the Ballot Box

By Judy Fahys