Living Rivers-Colorado Riverkeeper, Great Basin Water Network and the Center for Biological Diversity released the following statements after it was revealed that Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy’s plan to sell off…
Last night, the Nevada Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections held a hearing on a bill that urges President Trump and the Congress to sign off on a federal…
Federal permitting standards under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are quintessential means of expressing and defending our rights as citizens during permitting for major projects on federal lands. As…
The United States is without a Senate-confirmed cabinet member overseeing essential functions of water management in the western United States. As is common in the early days of new presidential…
Today, the Nevada Assembly passed legislation that urges President Trump and the Congress to sign off on a federal plan to create urban sprawl from the Las Vegas Valley to…
Water Warriors, Legislation backed by publicly traded water developer Vidler could move through the Nevada Legislature without your assistance. Today is a major deadline day, and we need this…
AB419, a proposal backed by private water developers like Vidler and other interests who want to fast-track water rights approvals for deep-pocketed entities is having a hearing today. This bill…
Sprawl unites politicians unlike other topics in the nation’s driest state.
In the past month, Democrats and Republicans in the Nevada congressional delegation introduced legislation to sell off large tracts of…
Today, Nevada’s senior U.S. Senator re-introduced legislation to sell off public lands in Southern Nevada, placating a long-running demand from real estate interests, President Trump, and Governor Lombardo. Senator Catherine…
Last week GBWN got a copy of a letter authored by the top water managers in the Lower Basin advocating for the new administration to study and consider the major…
When we are not working to defeat dangerous proposals in legislative sessions, we are working to pass laws that work for rural communities, ecosystems, and water users. That is our…
New email records between federal officials and contractors for the Central Iron County Water District show that there are major plans in the works to re-start the water-stealing Cedar City…
Federal regulators moved to deny a key request from rPlus Hydro’s White Pine Water Power, delaying project permitting for nearly two years and rebuffing a request to expedite the hydrologic…
Our dearest friend at the Water Network, Simeon Herskovits, passed away last week at the age of 61. For all of us at GBWN, Simeon was the legendary, almost immortal…
The new administration in Washington D.C. gutted the regulations overseeing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, a key function for public participation and community protection on major actions proposed…
Data centers are grabbing lots of headlines. And for good reason. The necessary cooling sucks up lots of water. The energy demands are hefty. The power necessary to sustain them…
Keep a close eye on these bills working their way through the statehouses in the nation's driest states. In Nevada, watch AB109, AB134, AB9 and AB104. These are…
During the first few days of the new Administration, policy wonks across all sectors read the spate of Executive Orders with varying degrees of confusion, outrage, joy, indifference, or uncertainty.…
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This week we participated in the Third Annual Great Basin Water Justice Summit with dear friends from across the region. In partnership with the…