For Star subscribers: Arizona and California are at it again. This time, Arizona leaders are blaming California, and other states, for putting the burden of stemming the river's impending crisis on their backs alone.
The Justice Department acknowledged in court records that Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was involved in a decision that overturned a finding that the 28,000-home Benson project needed a thorough environmental review.
The only way the policymakers will make and change policy to address this planet-wide crisis is if we demand it. And the only effective way to demand it is by making our voices heard at the ballot box.
An experimental garden about 35 miles north of Tucson is part of a wider effort to radically reshape desert food production to meet the growing challenges posed by climate change.
Reinstatement of a Phoenix developer's permit to build a 28,000-home project in Benson is likely now that federal agencies have stood by an earlier decision limiting its environmental reviews
