Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma, chair of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona, saw the unprecedented gusher of federal clean energy money as a potential lifeline for his community still reeling after the closure of a job-creating coal plant in 2019. After applying for and receiving some $90 million in federal funding for solar power projects, battery installations[...]

Big Utilities are fast-tracking a dangerous bill (HB2679) that would shift their bad investments onto ratepayers and prolong the use of polluting, water-intensive power plants like coal and gas.

Solar advocates continue to fight what they call a “discriminatory” fee added to the utility bills of Arizona Public Service customers who have solar panels. The “grid access charge” is a $2-3 monthly fee for customers with an average rooftop solar system. It was instituted last March and, after advocacy groups protested, upheld in a[...]

Arizona joined with 22 other states Tuesday to sue President Donald Trump over his sweeping federal grant freeze, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Shortly before the states filed their suit, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked Trump’s payment pause in response to a separate lawsuit from the National Council of Nonprofits. The[...]

With new leadership and recently elected officials being sworn in at the federal, state, and local levels, come new opportunities. However, as innovative policies and approaches are discussed, it is important to simultaneously build upon successful, impactful, and popular programs that are already in place or underway. 

As Phoenix emerges from its hottest year on record, President Donald Trump will sign a series of orders designed to expand U.S. fossil fuels production and relax climate-related regulations in his first day of office. The orders could worsen the effects of climate change by increasing long-term global emissions and slowing the country’s transition to[...]

More than 35 conservation groups including the Sierra Club, Arizona Youth Climate Coalition, Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders for Equity, Chispa Arizona, presented their 2025 Environmental Priorities to the Arizona Legislature and Governor Katie Hobbs in Phoenix yesterday. The coalition is calling for urgent action on the climate crisis, advocating for clean[...]

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) spent $2.1 million, which it intends to collect from customers, on memberships in political trade associations, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and other groups during 20 months between 2023 and 2024. TEP reported their contributions for that period to the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) in response to a series of[...]

Today, the American Lung Association in Arizona released updated polling that shows for the fifth consecutive year, Arizona voters continue to view air pollution and climate change as serious problems and support clean energy and transportation solutions. More than 7 in 10 voters agree a transition to clean energy will have a positive impact on[...]

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has sparked an unprecedented wave of investment in Arizona, reinforcing our state’s position as a leader in clean energy innovation, infrastructure and advanced manufacturing throughout 2024. At the Arizona Technology Council, our mission to drive growth in the state’s technology sector has given us a front-row seat to how transformative[...]