Sierra Club Opposes SRP's Request to ACC to reverse its Decision to Deny Siting Approval for Coolidge Plant Expansion
June 20, 2023
..."SRP is now asking the ACC to just say okay to the project without additional review despite the significant changes SRP is proposing. Because of those significant changes, SRP needs to file an amended certificate of environmental compatibility...
Sierra Club Statement on Secretary Haaland’s visit to Grand Canyon to hear from Tribes on the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument
May 21, 2023
GRAND CANYON – On Saturday, Secretary of the Department of Interior, Deb Haaland, met with Tribal and community leaders at Grand Canyon National Park to learn more about a proposed national monument to protect more than one million acres of lands...
News Release: Glen Canyon Dam Operations Must Safeguard Grand Canyon’s Humpback Chub
March 10, 2023
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation must manage Colorado River flows to prevent non-native smallmouth bass populations from establishing, thereby jeopardizing threatened humpback chub in the Grand Canyon, conservationists warned in formal comments...
News Release from Grijalva: Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act
March 6, 2023
Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) announced...the "Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act" to permanently protect...from foreign mining operations...destroy tribal cultural and religious heritage sites...sacred to...tribal nations in Arizona...for millennia...
Uranium Mine Gears Up Near Grand Canyon National Park
December 7, 2022
Senate must pass Grand Canyon mining ban before 117th Congress ends
Arizona Climate Leaders Celebrate Historic Investments for Arizona
September 1, 2022
...to Address Extreme Weather, Expand Clean Energy, and Create Jobs -- Leaders Thank President Biden and Arizona’s Congressional Climate Supporters for Passing the Inflation Reduction Act... [click thru for PDF (3-pg) -- plus, a video of full press...
Calling AZ Senators to Support "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022"
August 2, 2022
Groups Call on Senator Sinema and Senator Kelly to Support Bold Climate Action -- and to vote “Yes” on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 -- 6 groups present petition (signed by 560 Arizonans) -- to both Senator Kyrsten Sinema and Senator Mark...
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Decision to Halt Rosemont Mine in Arizona
May 12, 2022
TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal appeals court today upheld the invalidation of the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains ... is another blow to Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals’ plans...
BLM to Reconsider Target Shooting in Sonoran Desert National Monument
April 22, 2022
Late yesterday, the Arizona District Court in Phoenix approved a legal agreement requiring the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to re-examine its decision to allow target shooting in 90% of Sonoran Desert National Monument, a quiet oasis of saguaro...
ACC Kills Energy Rules and Defeats Clean Energy
January 26, 2022
Today, following nearly four years of workshops, public meetings, and thousands of supportive comments, including the support of both small and large businesses, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) voted down an energy rules package along party...