Opponents of the Copper World Mine are suing to overturn both a right-of-way and its state-approved financial value in order to block construc…
Tony Davis
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Tony graduated from Northwestern University and started at the Star in 1997. He has mostly covered environmental stories since 2005, focusing on water supplies, climate change, the Rosemont Mine and the endangered jaguar.
Residents, winemakers, other farmers and well owners are deeply split over Arizona's proposal to start regulating pumping in the depleted Willcox groundwater basin.
"The Upper Division states would almost certainly say 'hell no!' The Lower Basin States would then go to court to force the Upper Division states to ... deliver more water," says one expert. Another says that would be akin to "dropping a bomb" into the process.
The federal government released five alternatives for managing a drier Colorado River in an effort to come up with a long-term strategy for ke…
For Star subscribers: Warming temperatures, not declining precipitation, have by far been the biggest triggers of the drought that has overpowered the Western climate since 2000, a new study finds.
The Democratic candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission made climate change an issue, but it did them no good in this year's election.
Arizona is Mexico’s No. 1 trading partner and vice versa. The same goes for the U.S. as a whole — it’s Mexico’s top trading partner and Mexico…
But two of three Democratic candidates for the three ACC seats being contested say they're not ready to concede because more than 900,000 votes are still uncounted.
Three Republican candidates including the lone incumbent on the ballot were running narrowly ahead of three Democratic contenders in early ret…