This week’s Indy Environment newsletter looks at the details of a new plan to store more Colorado River water in Lake Mead.

John Entsminger, the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, talks about Colorado River negotiations and planning for a drier future.

On Monday, President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. What does that mean for funding water projects in Nevada and across the West?

Southwest Gas, based in Nevada, is planning its future as it faces pressure from climate groups to decarbonize and from investors over its management decisions.

In this week’s Indy Environment newsletter, we talked to a scientist with the Desert Research Institute about what goes into writing the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The approved regulation, also known as Clean Cars Nevada, implements California’s Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) standards for tailpipe emissions. The regulation also adopted California’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program.

This week’s Indy Environment newsletter looks at the Glasgow climate conference, what’s at stake and how those involved in Nevada climate policy are watching the talks.

A new online platform, developed in part by Nevada researchers, aims to address a major data gap in Western water management. Daniel Rothberg writes more about the recently launched platform in his weekly environmental newsletter.

Harris said the passage of the bills could help change the current trajectory and pointed to the lake's water level, which is as low as it has ever been

In an Executive Branch Audit Committee meeting in June, then-Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall said she believed the current rate of pay, $24 per day of work, was “a form of enslavement.”

Two weeks after thousands of South Lake Tahoe residents fled their homes, the flames of the Caldor Fire threatening to consume the tourist destination, Stephanie is relieved to be back in her house again.

South Lake Tahoe’s casino market is slowly getting back to business after the Caldor Fire forced a week-long shutdown of gaming and tourism operations.

Sisolak’s office confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the governor plans to make five appointments to the seven-member panel with the intention of restarting meetings. 

District Court Judge Miranda Du again denied a petition to delay preliminary excavations at the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine on Friday.

Monterrosa said the work of photographing fire — and people fleeing for their lives — is physically and emotionally taxing. At the same time, he said he’s feeling even more motivated to cover these disasters.

Officials orchestrated an unprecedented evacuation of South Lake Tahoe as the Caldor Fire spread closer to the lake. For residents, that has brought uncertainty, dislocation and questions about what the future looks like.

"Even within a given setting, such as a city, vulnerability to heat is not equally distributed," stated a forthcoming Guinn Center report.

Operators of the four major casinos in South Lake Tahoe began closing portions of their gaming floors Monday after fire officials in California ordered evacuations of residents all the way up to the Nevada border in response to the fast-spreading Caldor Fire.

Two tribal governments and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe asked a federal court to issue a preliminary injunction. Such a ruling could halt ground disturbance as the court weighs the merits of the case.

In a statement, Sisolak said his executive order was designed to protect the migration patterns of wildlife species ranging from pronghorn to the sage-grouse.