In early June, conservation groups cheered as a Senate committee scuttled the Air Force’s plan to take over protected public land for the expansion of a training range outside Las Vegas. Then the plan resurfaced in the House of Representatives.
To preserve precious water in Nevada water reclamation districts convert wastewater, also known as influent, into usable water for uses including watering landscapes and cooling electrical plants.
Across the West, projects ranging from new oil rigs to new pipelines trample on and fragment habitat for the Greater sage-grouse, an imperiled bird that has come to symbolize the tension between conservation and development. Although the Trump administration removed rules that require developers to offset — or mitigate — their impacts, Nevada has kept them in place.
In May, state regulators approved a revised report holding the mine responsible for less than half of the potential contamination previously modeled, a conclusion far more favorable for ARCO. In the long term, it could mean a less extensive and less expensive aquifer cleanup.
In a news release, state officials and Sisolak said the regulations — called the “Clean Cars Nevada” initiative — would be further developed through a series of public workshops over the next year and that they were designed to avoid forcing anyone to “give up their current vehicle or choose one that does not work for their lifestyle or business needs.”
This week's edition of the Indy Environment newsletter looks at a decision by a Senate committee to exclude language about military base expansions in a report on the defense authorization. It also looks at a recent state regulatory ruling on groundwater pumping and an electric vehicle incentive program.
The state’s top water regulator issued a ruling Monday that is likely to have a significant effect on any future development in a large area northeast of Las Vegas, including the construction of Coyote Springs, a proposed master-planned community.
The rule has set off a flurry of legal challenges from environmental groups. And in recent months, several Democrat-led Western states, including Colorado, California and New Mexico, have sued the Trump administration to challenge the final rule. Nevada has not joined those suits, but state regulators say they are evaluating the new rule’s total effect.
This week's edition of Indy Environment looks at environmental injustice issues, an executive order from President Trump and a lawsuit over the Endangered Species Act.
Investors want to sell a portion of their water at a farm near Winnemucca. For now, their focus is on the Humboldt River watershed, but in the past, the company has talked about water demands in fast-growing cities. That worries rural counties, dependent on water for their local economies and livelihoods, and environmental activists, concerned about the ecological effects of exporting water elsewhere.
A public water district for the country’s largest industrial park has agreed to settle an eminent domain case weeks after a judge ruled that the state Constitution gave a nearby family the right to a jury trial in determining whether seizing their private land for a pipeline project was valid.
Walking outside on a warm summer afternoon or hiking in the backcountry, it’s easy to forget the dynamism underneath the Earth’s surface — until these movements cause a major earthquake. That’s what happened in the early morning of May 15. About 75 miles outside of Tonopah, a big quake occurred on a fault trending roughly east-west.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board voted Thursday to withdraw its remaining permits and applications associated with its proposal to pump groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas -- a project criticized by environmentalists, ranchers, tribes and rural counties.
This edition of the Indy Environment newsletter looks at projections for fire season and a $600,000 grant announced to assess contamination in Reno's urban core.
Pending an appeal or a stay, the ruling puts the brakes on a closely watched groundwater market in Diamond Valley, where the state has, for decades, allowed irrigators to pump more than twice the amount of water than is sustainable, causing groundwater levels to decline.
This edition of the Indy Environment newsletter looks at the Southern Nevada Water Authority's decision not to appeal a ruling that denied it water rights for the Las Vegas pipeline. The newsletter also looks at a lawsuit filed by Lake Tahoe homeowners and an an air quality report.
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