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July 23, 2025 The White House’s broad plan to bolster artificial intelligence (AI) includes calls to ease or remove numerous environmental standards for construction of AI-related data centers, and create new exclusions from environmental review, new general clean water permits and eased rules under federal air, water and waste laws. “AI will require new infrastructure […]

ADEQ Announces $1 Million in Recycling Grant FundingInterested Arizona Communities are Encouraged to Apply by Sept. 9, 2025 PHOENIX (July 15, 2025) –  After a successful relaunch in 2023, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is pleased to announce that its Recycling Grant Program is returning for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY2026). With $1 million in funding

The EPA is making significant changes to its regulations concerning PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), often referred to as “forever chemicals”. While the agency finalized a rule in 2024 setting enforceable limits for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water and requiring public water systems to comply by 2029, it is now proposing to extend the

WASHINGTON — In a major step toward long-term water resilience in the American West, the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation—partnering with the Upper Colorado River Commission—have announced significant progress in deploying a $50 million investment to enhance water infrastructure across the Upper Colorado River Basin. With critical support from the Upper

May 13, 2025 – The town of Greer is being evacuated Tuesday for a wildfire that started on private land. The eastern Arizona community was heavily damaged almost 15 years ago in the Wallow Fire. Navajo County Sheriff’s Office officials say they’re helping neighboring Apache County to evacuate the Greer, near the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests.

Water utilities are lobbying Congress to maintain level funding for EPA’s clean water and drinking water state revolving loan fund (SRF) programs as a new analysis shows that key Northeast and Midwest states will likely face significant cuts to their infrastructure programs as a result of the Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts.

Arizona recycles more than half its wastewater, the second-highest rate among the seven states on the Colorado River, a new study found. If all seven states on the river reused as much water as Arizona, they could add a combined 1.3 million acre-feet of water each year to regional supplies. Arizona could add more recycled

March 31, 2025 – Hayleigh Evans AZ Republic The state can expect a ‘critical’ fire season due to months of extreme short-term drought, Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management officials told Gov. Katie Hobbs during a briefing March 31. “This is one of the most critical years that we’ve seen in our careers,” said

RALEIGH March 28, 2025 — Legal and health experts are pointing to the lack of available data on PFAS contamination in air, specifically on the health risks from its inhalation, as a barrier to regulating the chemicals in the less-studied medium, hindering efforts such as a 2024 multi-state petition to EPA to list four PFAS