Environment Archives - Page 4 of 9

OPINION: Ensuring a Prosperous Nevada

May 15, 2024 12:32 pmMay 15, 2024 4:23 pm

Nevada is poised to play a crucial role as a swing state in the upcoming elections, making it essential for voters to understand the core values of conservatism, especially regarding energy and environmental policies. With the state’s electoral outcome potentially decided by a slim margin, supporting Governor Lombardo and officials...

Governors Lombardo And Newsom Square Off Over New CA Fuel Regulations

May 15, 2024 10:48 amMay 21, 2024 2:21 pm

Yesterday afternoon, Governor Lombardo sent a letter (see below) to California Governor Gavin Newsom raising his concerns about the unintended consequences of California’s SBX1-2 legislation, which could further increase gas prices in California, Nevada, and Arizona. SBX1-2, known as the California Gas Price Gouging and Transparency Law, was hastily enacted...

Nevada Senators Propose Bill to Repurpose Yucca Mountain, Ban Nuclear Waste Storage

May 14, 2024 4:28 pmMay 15, 2024 10:58 am

This afternoon, Democratic Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced legislation to repeal the law that led to the designation of Yucca Mountain as a repository for the nation’s nuclear waste, and examine job-creating benefits of other uses for Yucca Mountain, such as a data center, a command facility...

Schools Over Stadium Strikes Out With Supremes

May 13, 2024 12:20 pmMay 20, 2024 12:29 pm

The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that rejected the language of a referendum petition to overturn Senate Bill 1, the public financing legislation needed to move the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas. The higher court agreed that the petition was “legally deficient” and “confusing.” In a...

License to Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership (Part Three)

May 6, 2024 1:42 pmMay 14, 2024 11:58 am

This is Part Three of the three-part series “License to Burn”. Part One can be found here. Part Two is linked here. “Someday in the near future, fire will again be part of the landscape’s ecology, even roaming through our backyards without being a threat to our communities.” Forest Schafer,...

Brightline West Breaks Ground on HighSpeed Rail Between CA And NV

April 23, 2024 12:01 pm

On Earth day, a group of bipartisan officials attended a ground breaking ceremony for Brightline West, the first high speed rail system in the United States that will connect Southern California to Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevada’s Democratic congressional delegation and Republican Governor Joe Lombardo welcomed Department of Transportation Secretary Pete...

License To Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Private-Public Partnership

April 22, 2024 11:42 amMay 20, 2024 1:36 pm

This is Part One of a three-part series. Part Two of the series can be found here. Part Three is found here. With increasingly intense wildfires over recent years, we in the West are expected to embrace the new wildfire normal, as if it’s normal to have multiple catastrophic fires...