A growing number of states have passed laws creating stiffer penalties for protesting at what’s called critical infrastructure sites — places like oil and gas facilities, railroads and power plants. Utah just became the 19th state to pass such a law.

An international body that regulates the trade of protected plants and animals has imposed sanctions on Mexico. The country had failed to deliver a satisfactory plan to protect the world’s most endangered marine mammal — a small porpoise that lives only in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California.

The Bureau of Land Management oversees about 245 million acres for a variety of uses. Critics say the agency typically favors industry and agriculture, but the agency recently signaled it may shift in a new direction.

Last year, President Biden announced that he intended to create a national monument in southeast Nevada, and last week he fulfilled that pledge.

When President Joe Biden took office, his administration acted quickly to unpublish an environmental report that gave the green light to a proposed copper mine in the Oak Flat area of Tonto National Forest. But it may soon republish the report.
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An estimated 2,000 Arizonans currently living in Mohave County suffered the effects of radiation exposure from nuclear testing during the Cold War. Yet, the U.S. government doesn’t recognize them as victims. The Downwinders Parity Act introduced last month by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is the latest in a long line of bipartisan attempts to compensate them.

The Department of Interior will receive more than $120 million from the Inflation Reduction Act for work on National Wildlife Refuges. Some of that money will go to a refuge in Arizona.

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego will appear at the United Nations Water Conference in New York this week where she will discuss work done by the city to conserve water.