What’s the big idea? Calling on innovators to get rid of Phoenix trash
Phoenix is looking for people who know how to talk trash. As in, get rid of trash.
Putting the squeeze on trash in downtown Phoenix
PHOENIX – Solar-powered trash cans placed in downtown Phoenix compact and reduce trash, spur recycling and cut down on trash collections – and may herald a new way to get rid of trash, Phoenix officials say.
Lawmakers: Obama won’t OK Grand Canyon monument before leaving
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will leave office Friday without declaring a new 1.7 million acre national monument around the Grand Canyon, Arizona lawmakers said this week.
Western mayors talk water conservation, stay mum on drought allotments
WASHINGTON - Nearly a dozen Western mayors gathered Wednesday to discuss anything and everything "water" except the region's drought contingency plan - what Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton called "the 800-pound gorilla in the room."
Orphaned mountain lion cub grows into new life at Out of Africa center
CAMP VERDE – A mountain lion cub clings to a tree high above ground, malnourished and frightened.
Wading through the yuck, researchers study wastewater sludge for public health clues
TEMPE – Pristine white lab coats hang on a wheeled rack. Handwritten measurements and equations are crammed on whiteboards. And a long line of freezers are filled with containers of super-concentrated human waste.
January 4, 2017: Sustainability Special
Cronkite News special: Protecting the environment and energy opportunities
Arizona still a power in solar power, despite other states’ gains
WASHINGTON - A month after it announced plans to develop a new solar power plant in Gila Bend, Vasari Energy was back in November to double down on its Arizona investment, expanding the plant's capacity to power more than 7,000 homes.
Yearning for home, AZ inmates paint California mural on prison walls
ELOY – The prison squatted in the southeastern Arizona desert is as drab as the vegetation and soil that surrounds it, giving way to a room inside painted in bursts of California scenes: of skyscrapers, surf and Interstate 5, Hollywood movie reels, the Oakland Raiders and Cesar Chavez.
San Carlos Apache Tribe, environmentalists battle Oak Flat copper mine bid
SUPERIOR - Oak Flat, a desert landscape and 90-minute drive outside Phoenix, lies in the midst of an environmental and economic controversy.
December 14, 2016: Sustainability Special
Cronkite News special: Protecting the environment and energy opportunities
Three days in August: How a water outage in AZ exposed cracks in customer service
PARKER – The high was 96 degrees on the day the tap went dry at Terry Mestas’ house. Mestas was among several hundred residents who endured heat that climbed to 106 degrees over three days in August, when five water-line breaks and a weak pressure valve shut down the water.
