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The Silver Peak mine in Clayton Valley, Nev. is the only active lithium mine in the U.S. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Lithium Companies Fight Over Water in the Arid Great Basin

By Daniel Rothberg

A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The sprawl of North Las Vegas is viewed from the air on Jan. 11, 2022. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Environmentalists See Nevada Supreme Court Ruling Bringing State’s Water Management ‘Into the 21st Century’

By Wyatt Myskow

A large solar farm off Interstate 15 in Arrolime, Nevada. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

By Wyatt Myskow

The Toad and the Geothermal Plant

By Henry Carnell, Mother Jones

Kyle Roerink, right, leads a hike in the Duck Creek Range, where a pumped storage project is proposed in Ely, Nevada, on Thursday Oct. 5, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?

By Wyatt Myskow

As the Colorado River Declines, Water Scarcity and the Hunt for New Sources Drive up  Rates

By Wyatt Myskow and Emma Peterson

Tiehm's buckwheat flower. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

A Rare Plant Got Endangered Species Protection This Week, but Already Faces Threats to Its Habitat

By Wyatt Myskow

Firefighters spray down hot spots during the Mosquito Fire on Sept. 14, 2022 in Foresthill, California. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Wildfires Are Burning State Budgets

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

LEFT: Republican candidate for Senate Adam Laxalt speaks to a crowd at an election night event on June 14, 2022 in Reno, Nevada. Credit: Trevor Bexon/Getty Images RIGHT: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) participates in a discussion on climate change-fueled extreme weather and its impact on local communities on July 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

In Nevada’s Senate Race, Energy Policy Is a Stark Divide Between Cortez Masto and Laxalt

By Delaney Dryfoos

Marty Plaskett, a hay farmer in Diamond Valley, Nevada, stands near one of his irrigation pivots that’s watering his alfalfa field on Sept. 2, 2022. Credit: Kaleb Roedel

A Plan To Share the Pain of Water Scarcity Divides Farmers in This Rural Nevada Community

By Kaleb Roedel, Mountain West News Bureau

The Hemenway boat ramp at the marina on Lake Mead, a reservoir on the Colorado River that has dropped significantly. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

State Tensions Rise As Water Cuts Deepen On The Colorado River

By Aydali Campa

People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day People of Red Mountain organized a remembrance of a massacre of indigenous people nearby on the same date in 1865. Credit: Spenser Heaps

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

By Cayte Bosler

Six candidates faced off in the ninth Democratic presidential primary debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday night. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Democrats Miss Another Chance to Actually Debate Their Positions on Climate Change

By Marianne Lavelle

Vanessa Hauc, right, will be the first climate journalist to moderate a presidential debate on Wednesday in Nevada. Credit: Alexander Tamargo/WireImage via Getty Images

For Many Nevada Latino Voters, Action on Climate Change is Key

By Marianne Lavelle

Reno Offers Comparison Shopping for Home Turbines

By Maria Gallucci

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