Crews fighting the Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon have safeguarded Roaring Springs, a critical water pumphouse for the national park. knau.org/knau-and-arizo…

DHS’ response to my story yesterday (24 hours later) on a Democracy Forward class action challenging ICE arrests at immigration courthouses and guidance for imm. judges to grant prosecutors’ dismissal motions even when they don’t clear the usual burden of evidence. Courthouse News

EPA announces layoffs ift.tt/F87CJUm

“Doesn’t it suck that every time the science improves, the outlook for the climate and water looks worse?” That's one researcher's takeaway on a new study finding greenhouse gas emissions are likely to cause the Southwest's drought to last until 2100. insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/…

BREAKING: Trump files his WSJ lawsuit over 'bawdy' Epstein birthday letter story in the Southern District of Florida, where the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case withered and died before Judge Aileen Cannon. Courthouse News courthousenews.com/trump-sues-ove…

The drought in the Southwestern U.S. is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean. insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/…

🚨Scoop🚨 The mysterious giant data center planned for Tucson was named in a 2023 doc obtained from Pima County: Amazon Web Services The data center—H20 and electricity intensive—has sparked fierce public pushback My latest w/ Yana Kunichoff AZLuminaria azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/ama…

"Not one acre" became a rallying cry against Utah Sen. Mike Lee's attempt to sell off millions of acres of public land for housing development. The Trump admin has a similar proposal, with ~400k on the chopping block. Will 'not one acre' carry over? publicdomain.media/p/trump-team-e…

Burgum on wind energy: "We've got issues environmentally with both fish and birds...migrating birds." wait until he learns about the impact of oil waste pits on birds and what his boss did to the migratory bird treat act....

As the The White House pushes more domestic rare earth mining, it's cannibalizing U.S. renewables—a large driver of demand for those resources, one source told me. I wrote about how this tension is playing out in the Powder River Basin for Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/23072025/…

More energy usage than all the residences in Birmingham. 2 million gallons a day of water. More than 100 acres of forest clear cut. Putting the Birmingham darter at risk of extinction. Read about the impacts of a proposed data center in Alabama here: insideclimatenews.org/news/25072025/…

Four Apache women filed suit in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to block a land exchange needed to build a copper mine at Oak Flat. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

🚨 The Trump administration has blocked the NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts. Via STAT statnews.com/2025/07/29/tru…

since Trump's first term, the admin's position has been that the MBTA does not prohibit incidental take yet Trump's Interior has announced it will review bird morality associated with wind energy to determine if they qualify as incidental take can't make it up

To mine the sacred site of Oak Flat, Resolution Copper will exchange a mesquite forest with the feds. But just up the road from that site, which acts as a mitigation property for Resolution Copper's mine, the feds approved drilling for another mine. insideclimatenews.org/news/05082025/…

This cutie has been showing up around 8 a.m. every morning (between grapefruit and small cereal-bowl sized). I'm estimating 5-6 years old. Still waiting on rain that I hope will get the rest of the desert #tortoise crew out and about.

From the inbox: A newly released statement from Ben Jealous after Inside Climate News broke the news of his firing from Sierra Club yesterday. Updated story here: insideclimatenews.org/news/11082025/…

Meanwhile me riding the metro at night

Breaking: Texas Democrats signal they are poised to end redistricting walkout politico.com/news/2025/08/1…