Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Environment

  • Las Vegas parks, rec areas get $75 million in federal funding
    The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today that it will give Clark County over $75 million in funding for three Las Vegas-area recreational facilities and an additional $3.5 million to support the county’s Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan.
  • Tom Brundy points to a newly built irrigation canal on one of the fields at his farm Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, near Calexico, Calif. Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California's Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant on the shrinking Colorado River can do more to save water and use it more efficiently. But one practice that's off-limits for Brundy is fallowing — leaving fields unplanted to spare the water that would otherwise irrigate crops.
    In dry West, farmers balk at idling land to save water
    Tom Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California's Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant on the shrinking Colorado River can do more to save water and use it more efficiently. That's why ...
  • An Access Restricted sign is posted by Lithium Nevada Corp. at Thacker Pass in Orovada, Nevada Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
    U.S. judge won't block huge lithium mine on Nevada-Oregon line
    A federal judge has sided again with the Biden administration and a Canadian-based mining company in a fight with environmentalists and tribal leaders trying to block a huge lithium mine in Nevada near ...
  • Gas prices are shown on a pump in Primm, Nev. Wednesday, June 22, 2022.
    Lombardo issues fuel emergency for Clark County, urges against 'panic buying'
    Clark County declared a fuel emergency late Friday after a leak was discovered in a pipeline that transports fuel from California to Las Vegas. "Tonight, I am declaring a state of emergency for the fuel pipeline leak impacting ...
  • This photo provided by UNR shows UNR student Michelle Werdann feeding a wild Mountain Chickadee pine nuts at Chickadee Ridge in Mount Rose Meadows on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
    Don't feed the bears! But birds OK, new Tahoe research shows
    Snowshoe and cross-country ski enthusiasts routinely feed the tiny mountain chickadees high above the north shore of the alpine lake on the California-Nevada border.
  • In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo, Melissa Boerst, a Lithium Nevada Corp. geologist, points to an area of future exploration from a drill site at the Thacker Pass Project in Humboldt County.
    Nevada lithium mine wins ruling; green energy fights rage on
    A federal judge has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a lithium mine planned in Nevada but denied opponents' effort to block the project in a ruling the developer ...
  • This photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity, shows a laydown area for drilling operations within Tiehm's buckwheat critical habitat in Esmeralda County, Nev., Dec. 26, 2022. Five days after the Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian mining company pursuing a contentious lithium project in Nevada, U.S. land managers cited it for trespassing within habitat of an endangered flower.
    Lithium miner cited for violating endangered flower habitat
    Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian mining company pursuing a lithium project in Nevada, federal land managers cited ....
  • This photo taken June 1, 2019, by Patrick Donnelly of the Center for Biological Diversity shows the rare desert wildflower Tiehm's buckwheat in the Silver Peak Range, about 120 miles south of Reno.
    Group plans to sue government over protection of rare Nevada flower
    A national conservation advocacy group announced today plans to sue the federal government for failing to preserve the habitat of an endangered flower species that grows on a small swath of land in ...
  • This photo taken June 1, 2019, by Patrick Donnelly of the Center for Biological Diversity shows the rare desert wildflower Tiehm's buckwheat in the Silver Peak Range, about 120 miles south of Reno.
    Feds launching review of mine at site of endangered flower
    Just days after U.S. wildlife officials declared a Nevada wildflower endangered at the site of a proposed lithium mine, federal land managers are initiating a review of the latest project plans the ...
  • This photo taken June 1, 2019, by Patrick Donnelly of the Center for Biological Diversity shows the rare desert wildflower Tiehm's buckwheat in the Silver Peak Range, about 120 miles south of Reno.
    Nevada flower listed as endangered at lithium mine site
    U.S. wildlife officials declared a Nevada wildflower endangered on Wednesday at the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet ...
  • The imperiled Dixie Valley toad.
    Endangered listing for Nevada toad in geothermal power fight
    A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially been declared an endangered species after U.S. wildlife officials temporarily listed it on a rarely-used emergency basis last spring. “This ruling makes final the listing of the Dixie Valley toad,” the U.S. Fish and ...
  • Visitors view the dramatic bend in the Colorado River at the popular Horseshoe Bend in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, in Page, Ariz., on Sept. 9, 2011.
    New U.S. plan could lead to federal action on Colorado River
    The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the first sign of what could lead to ...
  • The imperiled Dixie Valley toad.
    Rare toad fight similar to landmark endangered species case
    The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since then. But the stage is being set in Nevada for ...
  • The Devils Hole pupfish evolved in an extreme environment in Nevada’s corner of Death Valley National Park, and it has been classified by the federal government as an endangered species for 54 years.
    Endangered pupfish population at Devils Hole reaches 19-year-high
    The population of a critically endangered species at Devils Hole has reached a 19-year high after waves caused by an earthquake in Mexico cleared away organic matter so that scientists could more accurately see and count fish, according to a release from Death Valley National Park.
  • Tony Moffett and his wife, Kelley, show off their restored 1972 Ford Mustang Mach 1 every Saturday morning at the Shelby Heritage Center meetup for car enthusiasts. Like other collectible car owners, Moffett will have to meet new requirements to license his car annually in Nevada.
    For classic car enthusiasts, change in Nevada law looks to be an expensive proposition
    Classic car enthusiasts like Tony Moffett are bracing for a change in state law going into effect Jan. 1 that will require owners of classic rods and vehicles to provide proof of car insurance and pass a smog check.
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