Let’s talk about mud. Goo. Slippery dirt. The stuff a little girl’s pies are made out of! Yes good old mud. To be sure, today its mid-winter and mud season seems so far away. Or so I thought until I went out to take a nice cool walk recently. I encountered a bit of the […]

Now, precisely where in the U.S. Constitution is Congress given the power to “maintain a distinct Federal interest in the integrity and character of professional and amateur sporting contests”? But this is what a bill introduced this past week by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York — […]

Now that California’s Energy Commission has approved mandatory efficiency standards for all homes built in the state after Jan. 1, 2020, including the requirement that rooftop solar panels be used, a self-styled environmental group is calling on every state to require solar panels on new homes. Environment America Research & Policy Center says the requirement […]

By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto This past November I completed my tour of every county in Nevada. Each year, I make it one of my top priorities to visit many of our state’s rural towns and hear from you about the challenges and opportunities confronting local communities. These conversations help me identify the best ways […]

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back another Obama era overreach, specifically rules that defined every stream, ditch, seasonal puddle and muddy hoof print as being covered by the restrictions of the Clean Water Act of 1972 that was intended to prohibit pollutants being dumped into navigable waters — known colloquially as the […]