by Mike Ludwig | Mar 24, 2026 | AI, aridification, Arizona, Big Oil, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Colorado River, data centers, Drought, Fires, Fossil Fuel Industry, Fossil Fuels, Heat Dome, Heat Wave, Heat Waves, News, Rainfall, southwest, US Southwest, Water
Tucson, Arizona — Deadly heat waves have become the summertime norm in Arizona and much of the Southwest in recent years. But this year, those heat waves are coming months before the height of summer. As an atmospheric “heat dome” planted itself over much of the U.S. West, temperatures outside Phoenix reached 101 degrees on the first day of spring, making Arizona the hottest place on Earth.
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by Kiley Bense | Jan 17, 2026 | Coal, Coal Mining, Congress, Fires, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Land reclamation, News, Pennsylvania, Pollution, West Virginia
When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2021, authorizing more than $11 billion in new funding to reclaim lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the people who lead this work on the ground were ecstatic. “We were to the moon,” said Amanda Pitzer, the executive director at Friends of the Cheat, a nonprofit organization in West Virginia that works…
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