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Late last week, Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva and New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich introduced the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act. It would make a number of changes to the Mining Law of 1872, including the collection of royalties from hardrock mining.
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Currently such firefighters are facing an Oct. 1 end to temporary pay raises that were a part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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The National Fire Registry, which seeks to better understand the link between firefighting and serious diseases like cancer, recently launched its online enrollment system. Wildland firefighters, who have proven more challenging research subjects than structure firefighters, are being encouraged to enroll.
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The COVID-19 public health emergency is set to lift this Thursday. Over more than three years of pandemic, Native American communities were particularly hard hit.
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The most recent wildfire potential outlook report from the National Interagency Fire Center shows that much of the West will likely see normal or below normal wildfire seasons this year. However, a large swath of southwest Idaho, northwest Nevada and central Oregon and Washington could see above average wildfire.
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Headwaters Economics recently released an updated analysis of federal data on the economic impact of the recreation economy, whose scale rivals or exceeds that of many sectors that get a lot more attention, like car manufacturing and air transportation. Those impacts are on the whole even more significant in much of the West.
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As a part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, the Department of Interior and the National Endowment for the Humanities will be digitizing records that document the experiences of those who survived such schools, as well as their descendants. $4 million from the NEH will also support an oral history project with those people.
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The American Lung Association’s new State of the Air report includes a number of Western cities among those most impacted by ozone, short-term and year-round particle pollution. They include Salt Lake City, Boise, Albuquerque and a number of front range cities in Colorado.
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The US Fire Administrator visited Boise this week, along with a number of other officials, to discuss a new national report on fire prevention and control. Among the key components is the promotion of enforcement of building codes - with the emphasis on structures in the wildland-urban interface - to improve fire resilience.
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Yushchenko, who survived a 2004 poisoning before becoming Ukraine’s third president, spoke at a packed Boise State University auditorium and thanked the rapt audience for the solidarity that many Americans have shown Ukraine since Russia’s February 2022 invasion.