In 2024, the max temperature in Phoenix sat at or above 100 degrees for approximately 30% of the year — and that non-stop consecutive heat has environmental advocates and doctors worried about the years to come as climate change continues to make the world and Arizona hotter.

Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Tana Lin for the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington issued a preliminary injunction lifting the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze of federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. NEVI is a transformative $5 billion initiative to build reliable and convenient fast charging stations for electric vehicles along major highways nationwide.

Today, the Arizona Commerce Authority released new numbers highlighting the jobs and business investment at risk due to cuts from the Congressional Reconciliation Bill. In total, the reckless legislation would put 69,000 jobs and $58 billion in investments in Arizona at risk.

As a registered nurse with over 25 years of experience serving vulnerable communities across Arizona — in school clinics, long-term care facilities, and public health programs — I’ve dedicated my career to helping people live healthier, safer lives. I’ve worked with families struggling to find affordable care, seniors battling chronic health conditions, and children suffering from asthma worsened by air pollution.

Trump’s policies are already threatening our energy independence – and Congressional Republicans would make it that much worse. Since November, over $86 billion in investments have been put at risk

The lawmakers said they’re “deeply concerned” by some of the Trump agenda bill’s provisions and called for changes to mitigate “significant disruption” to certain projects.

More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s pending megabill has raised fears over the future of domestic battery, electric vehicle and solar and wind energy development.

House Republicans passed their “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” through the reconciliation process on May 22, sending it to the U.S. Senate and one step closer to being signed into law by President Donald Trump.

Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, issued a statement claiming the bill “locks in the successful 2017 Trump tax cuts” and, if passed, would result in “made-in-America incentives” and secure more than 7 million jobs over the next four years, with wage increases of more than $11,000.

I was one of the first Tucsonans to take advantage of this Federal Clean Energy Program provision. Now, I might be one of the last.

On January 11, 2024, I received a call that my house had flooded. I was in Phoenix for work, which meant having left my 1950s Tucson home empty during a few nights of all-too-rare Tucson freeze warnings. I was a new homeowner and a little nervous. I was right to be – my pipes burst and flooded my entire home over a three-day period.

Congress appropriated funds in the 2021 infrastructure bill for a national network of electric vehicle charging stations. The administration, which opposes EVs in favor of gasoline-power vehicles, has frozen the money.