ICN Southwest

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

Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water

By Wyatt Myskow

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

New Mexico Debates What to Do With Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski

Navajo Summit Looks at History and Future of Tribe’s Relationship With Energy

By Noel Lyn Smith

Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure

By Dylan Baddour

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

El Paso Residents Rally to Protect a Rio Grande Wetland

By Martha Pskowski

Phoenix Braces—and Plans—for Another Hot, Dry Summer

By Wyatt Myskow

Legal Challenges Continue for SunZia Transmission Line

By Wyatt Myskow

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

Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Officials Celebrate a New Power Line to Charge Up the Energy Transition in the Southwest

By Noel Lyn Smith