Church officials announced earlier this week that they planned to donate roughly 20,000 acre-feet of water rights to the Great Salt Lake, which has shrunk to its lowest levels ever due to a supply-demand imbalance caused by decadeslong regional drought.
The California Tahoe Conservancy Board has given a $250,000 grant to the Tahoe Resource Conservation District to fight invasive plant species in Lake Tahoe.
State lawmakers on Monday are scheduled to discuss granting the power to limit what comes out of residents’ taps to the Southern Nevada Water Authority
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force a decision on whether it will protect the Nevada’s Fish Lake Valley tui chub under the Endangered Species Act
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 the Oregon line.
The legislation would make sure that state, local, and tribal entities are central in any decision regarding a permanent repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain
New research found that supplementing the chickadees’ natural food sources with food provided in feeders or by hand did not negatively impact them, as long as proper food is used and certain rules are followed.
The details of any potential tax breaks for Tesla’s $3.6 billion expansion of its Nevada factory will remain secret until late February, under a nondisclosure agreement that state officials signed with the electric carmaker.
General Motors Co. has conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas Corp. in a deal that will give GM exclusive access to the first phase of a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line
Recent storms have boosted all of our areas snowpacks, but have really helped the ones to the south, with the Walker River basin coming in at 254% of average and the Carson River basin just below that.
One proposal comes from Nevada: States at the end of the river would see their Colorado River portion shrink based on the distance it travels to reach users
The Bureau of Land Management and nonprofit organization Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition teamed up to seed more than 19,000 acres of burned public lands in eastern Nevada
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded up to $700 million to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge to develop a domestic supply of lithium carbonate for EV batteries.
A new lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity against the Bureau of Land Management aims to protect Tiehm’s Buckwheat from cattle grazing.
Thursday’s hearing in her Reno courtroom marks the first on the actual merits of the case and will set the legal landscape going forward with a new twist after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling in Arizona that voided federal approval of a copper mine.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management published a notice of intent to move forward with the environmental review despite last week’s determination by Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service that Tiehm’s buckwheat is on the brink of extinction.
At stake is drinking water for 40 million people; hydroelectric power for regional markets; and irrigation for farmers tilling millions of acres of former desert,.
Redwood Materials plans to pull out key components of batteries such as nickel, cobalt, lithium, and copper, and reuse them to make electrodes for electric vehicles.
The state Office of Economic Development approved incentives for Carson City-based Redwood Materials this week. It marks the second-largest capital investment in the office’s history, behind Tesla.
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