Mesa City Council approved an agreement last week with Tucson-based Solon Corporation to install almost 3,000 kW of solar panels over parking lots at four city-owned buildings in downtown Mesa.
The panels will generate enough energy to power 500 homes annually.
Besides boosting the Mesa electric utility’s renewable energy portfolio, the solar arrays will also provide shade for about 660 parking spaces. Most visible of these will be the 142 in front of the Main Library.
Phoenix residents don’t need to be reminded it’s hot in June. But it can be helpful to have a refresher on how to keep yourself, your loved ones and your community safe when summer temperatures arrive. And data-driven insights into how much a warming climate has influenced modern heat extremes and their impacts don’t hurt, either.
That’s the purpose of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ “Heat Action Day,” scheduled for Sunday. The IFRC is the world’s largest humanitarian network and, as such, has put resources into tracking how climate change has exacerbated the human toll of rising temperatures.
In a significant move, the Biden-Harris Administration today announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, a key initiative under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The rebates, totaling $8,345,000 for Arizona, will enable selectees to purchase 30 clean school buses in 10 school districts across the state. This program is a crucial step in Arizona’s journey towards improving children’s health and tackling harmful air pollution, replacing older, diesel-fueled school buses linked to student and community health issues.
A new federal initiative will rely on University of Arizona research and scholarship to help communities across the U.S. create policies and take action to mitigate and manage extreme heat. The university’s involvement in a new Center for Heat Resilient Communities, which the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday, will help translate climate research into policies and guidelines.
UArizona and Arizona State University are partner institutions with the center, which is led by faculty and staff at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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My husband and I were both teachers when we bought our dream family home in 1988, where we raised our two children. Then, in 2016, we both retired and realized two things.
First, we had always been Earth-conscious and as an important part of that commitment, we wanted to install solar panels and save money on our utility bill during our retirement, but the installation costs and the financial benefits were neither affordable nor available.
Second, Donald Trump was elected president and funneled all tax priorities to the oil and gas giants through his Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, not us.
FORT MOHAVE — Even without the visual of a hundred retirees wearing custom neon yellow shirts, it’s clear the neighbors are upset. The atmosphere in the meeting room at the Los Lagos Golf Course — itself a splash of green on the windswept brown landscape of Arizona’s Mojave Desert — is as tense as a coiled spring when Tyler Carlson, CEO of the Mohave Electric Cooperative, steps to the podium.
He’s come to convince residents of the Valley View at Sunrise Hills master planned development that putting a new gas-fired power plant less than half a mile from the closest home at its northeast corner will benefit the community.
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Clean Economy and Community Impact Summit was a half-day event centered around the state’s clean energy economy.
The summit took place on Friday, April 5 at the University of Arizona Tech Park located at 9030 S. Rita Road. on the Southeast side.