Author: Suman Naishadham
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In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium
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A company’s plan in southeast Utah to extract lithium is adding to an anxiety familiar in this part of the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River
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In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium (copy)
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A company’s plan in southeast Utah to extract lithium is adding to an anxiety familiar in this part of the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River
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Jury to decide on climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit over comparison to molester
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It’s been 12 years since a pair of conservative writers compared a prominent climate scientist to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming
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In Colorado River talks, still no agreement about water cuts
BOULDER CITY, Nev. • The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday of competing plans for how seven Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River should cut their use but declined to publicly take a side on the best option. On one side is California and some tribes along…
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How new Colorado River cuts will impact states, residents
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WASHINGTON • Arizona and Nevada residents won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite more Colorado River water shortages. But U.S. officials announced Tuesday there will be less water available next year for them from the river that serves 40 million people in the West and Mexico and a farm industry…
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EPA details push to tighten rules for lead in drinking water
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WASHINGTON • The Biden administration took steps Thursday aimed at reducing lead in drinking water, announcing plans to release $2.9 billion in infrastructure bill funds next year for lead pipe removal and impose stricter rules to limit exposure to the health hazard. Vice President Kamala Harris made the case for the administration’s push to eliminate…
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Biden administration acts to restore clean-water safeguards
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WASHINGTON • The Biden administration took action Thursday to restore federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, undoing a Trump-era rule that was considered one of that administration’s hallmark environmental rollbacks. At issue is a regulation sometimes referred to as “waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, that defines…