In New Mexico, a Walk Commemorates the Nuclear Disaster Few Outside the Navajo Nation Remember The Church Rock spill released more radioactive material than the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island four months earlier. Last week’s walk highlights the continuing cleanup and the ongoing hazards uranium mining poses to tribal lands. By Noel Lyn Smith
Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin By Martha Pskowski, Jenaye Johnson
Tribes and Environmentalists Press Arizona and Federal Officials to Stop Uranium Mining Near the Grand Canyon By Noel Lyn Smith
As a Nevada Community Fights a Lithium Mine, a Rare Fish and Its Haven Could Be an Ace in the Hole By Wyatt Myskow
Governors in the West Seek Profitability for Industrial and Natural Carbon Removal Projects By Jake Bolster
US Prisons and Jails Exposed to an Increasing Number of Hazardous Heat Days, Study Says By Sarah Hopkins
Mining the Sun: Some in the Wyoming Epicenter of the Coal Industry Hope to Sustain Its Economy With Renewables By Jake Bolster
A Proposed Nevada Lithium Mine Could Destroy Critical Habitat for an Endangered Wildflower Found Nowhere Else in the World By Wyatt Myskow
Congress Pushes Forward With Bill Expanding the Rights of Mining Companies on Federal Land By Esther Frances, Megija Medne and Phillip Powell
Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land By Noel Lyn Smith
Officials Celebrate a New Power Line to Charge Up the Energy Transition in the Southwest By Noel Lyn Smith