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The Arizona Republic

The Arizona Republic •

How President Trump's tariffs impact America's generation of nuclear energy

One of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants generates energy for Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California. It’s almost completely run on other countries' uranium. Foreign producers, including Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Australia, account for 99% of the uranium used by US nuclear generators in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Association. “We as a country have to rely on the rest of the world. We don’t have the capacity as a country to do everything ourselves,”...
The Arizona Republic •

How climate journalists should handle hesitation from sources and reader pushback

Veteran climate journalists convened in Phoenix for a conversation about how reporters can mitigate hesitation from sources and manage pushback from readers. It came as part of a panel discussion at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference about how journalists can hold people accountable. Panelists said that this is an extremely important topic to discuss because the success of journalism could be affected if a reporter doesn’t push for the truth.Executive editor of Drilled Me...
The Arizona Republic •

Will Joe Biden’s billions for climate initiatives survive Donald Trump’s purge?

President Donald Trump could freeze or rescind up to $750 billion that his predecessor wanted to spend on clean energy initiatives, according to reporters who have tracked former President Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar spending plan.“They spent trillions of dollars on things having to do with the ‘green new scam’ and that’s caused tremendous inflationary pressures,” Trump said at the Republican National Convention in July 2024.Jessie Blaeser, POLITICO’s senior data reporter, and Ben Storrow, a Cli...
The Arizona Republic •

Efforts to boost climate resilience need to include government accountable, experts say

Climate experts say community-wide changes are the valid next step in climate resilience, but policymakers don’t seem to have an appetite for making adjustments on a larger scale.“I think that mitigation is very well defined, you know how to measure greenhouse gases, you know that if you build a project you’re gonna have a direct impact of x, y, z,” said Nabig Chaudhry, director of climate adaptation strategy for Probable Futures at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. “Th...

Cronkite News

Cronkite News •

Trump plans for energy sector could undermine strides in solar

WASHINGTON – The $2 billion Sun Stream Complex in western Maricopa County will soon generate enough power to supply over 200,000 homes. The first phase has been transforming Arizona’s scalding sunlight into electricity for more than three years.

The vast solar farm covers more than 6,000 acres, or 9 square miles. By 2026, it will generate 973 megawatts of emission-free electricity and, over time, $300 million in lease payments and taxes to Arizona schools and communities, according to Boston-ba...
Cronkite News •

Trump’s pick for Pentagon chief, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, raises eyebrows

WASHINGTON – Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly was among the combat veterans and Democrats expressing deep skepticism at Donald Trump’s choice of a defense secretary with no national security experience.

“Typically you expect someone in that role to have implemented or made policy – defense policy,” Kelly, a Navy combat pilot, said Wednesday of the president-elect’s pick, conservative Fox News host Pete Hegseth.

Resumes of defense secretaries in recent decades included stints as CIA director, secretary...
Cronkite News •

Kamala Harris got little bounce from abortion rights ballot measures Donald Trump opposed

WASHINGTON – Ten states considered measures to protect or expand abortion rights on Tuesday. Voters approved seven of those proposals, including one in Arizona that overturned a 15-week ban and enshrines abortion access in the state constitution.

Democrats were counting on these ballot measures to propel their presidential nominee and other candidates.

Vice President Kamala Harris made reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, promising that her “first priority” would be to reinstate...
Cronkite News •

Arizona Prop. 139 on abortion rights divides the state

WASHINGTON – Arizona voters have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, approving Proposition 139 by a decisive margin of nearly 2-1. Passage means Arizona will protect a woman’s right to terminate pregnancy through fetal viability – roughly nine weeks beyond the state’s current 15-week ban.

Opponents call it radical. Backers say the current ban endangers women with complications later in pregnancy and demanded a return to the more expansive rights ensured for decades by the U.S....
Cronkite News •

PFAS contamination motivates new mitigation efforts in Arizona

WASHINGTON – An estimated 97% of Americans have detectable levels of invasive “forever chemicals” in their bloodstreams – many are unaware that they’re drinking them.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – are man-made synthetic chemicals manufactured and commercialized since the 1940s. This class of chemicals includes roughly 14,000 variations, widely used in consumer and industrial products – nonstick cookware, waterproof clothing, cosmetics and firefighter foam – due to their grease...
Cronkite News •

Republicans try to tie Hurricane Helene relief efforts to illegal migrants

WASHINGTON – As Hurricane Milton slams into Florida, and North Carolina residents dig out from Hurricane Helene, Republicans are pushing claims – widely debunked – that federal disaster aid has been depleted because of illegal immigration.

“FEMA, among a whole bunch of other federal agencies, has been using your tax dollars that are supposed to help you as American citizens,” said U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, during a campaign stop Tuesday in Phoenix on behalf of forme...
Cronkite News •

Inflation Reduction Act bringing 24 clean energy projects to Arizona

WASHINGTON – The nation’s first solar-powered cobalt processing facility will break ground next year in Yuma County, a $300 million project subsidized by a big federal investment in climate-friendly projects.

The plan is one of two dozen projects underway in Arizona catalyzed by the Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022. The law set aside $370 billion to promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The IRA is very helpful,” said Gil Michel-Garcia, e...