With the Legislature’s biennial 120-day session over, this edition of the Indy Environment newsletter looks at what measures made it to the governor’s desk and what legislation did not.

In a party-line vote, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee advanced a proposal placing new environmental regulations on mines that form artificial lakes when extraction stops.

Still, even among smaller categories of donors, such as the mining industry and education groups, politically powerful organizations helped drive six-figure contributions across dozens of campaigns.

After Nevada Gold Mines was formed in 2019, management stopped recognizing a union and was taken to court. This week, the company and the union negotiated a new contract.

State investigators reveal that the company did not follow basic safety protocols.

After a controversial merger put the company in the hands of Barrick, employees say the shift has incentivized production over worker safety.

This edition of Indy Environment looks at how Great Basin National Park reveals our past and how Las Vegas has cut back on its Colorado River supply.

In this week’s Indy Environment, we spoke with Jim Lawrence, who was recently named the acting director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

This week’s Indy Environment looks at the U.S. Department of Interior’s boarding school legacy through the lens of a recent art exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art.

This week’s Indy Environment looks at the Biden administration’s decision to resume oil and gas leasing on public lands, the mixed reactions and what it might mean for Nevada.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) helped derail an effort to revamp an 1872 mining law in the Democrats' agenda bill. The move has raised concerns with environmentalist ahead of a tough re-election campaign.

In this week’s edition of Indy Environment, we talk to an author who recently looked at the history of public lands policy in the West and what it might mean for the future.

This week's edition of the Indy Environment newsletter looks at what stories we are watching as 2022 begins.

In 2019, two mining giants joined forces, with huge consequences for a Northern Nevada community and economy.

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.

Driving the PAC’s fundraising total was a $2 million contribution made on June 29 by a company that lists prominent Las Vegas businessman Robert T. Bigelow as its sole officer.

During Thursday’s “Hard Hat Chat,” Gov. Sisolak and state Treasurer Zach Conine answered questions on how the state’s $6.7 billion share of American Rescue Plan (ARP) dollars will likely be spent.

The mining oversight board, set up by the Legislature in 2011 and modeled after the Gaming Commission, held its last recorded meeting in December 2015. Today, all seven board seats on the commission are vacant.

The bill, AB495, was heard in a joint Senate-Assembly budget meeting on Sunday evening ahead of a crucial legislative period — the 120-day session ends Monday at midnight, and the bill must still clear the Assembly and Senate with a two-thirds majority vote, requiring at least some Republican buy-in.

As lawmakers pursued a historic increase to the mining industry’s tax burden, mining companies and industry PACs combined to contribute more than $330,000 to their campaigns over the course of the 2020 election cycle.