This week’s Indy Environment newsletter looks at the state’s efforts to digitize more than a century of water records, making their archive more accessible to researchers and the public.
Biden plans to sign a proclamation designating the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. It will become the fourth recent national monument established in Nevada.
After Nevada Gold Mines was formed in 2019, management stopped recognizing a union and was taken to court. This week, the company and the union negotiated a new contract.
In a party-line vote, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee advanced a proposal placing new environmental regulations on mines that form artificial lakes when extraction stops.
Judge: Water regulators did not overstep in rejecting the company’s paperwork after discovering a conflict in the chain of title for water rights it bought in 2020.