Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will visit Lake Mead in Nevada to highlight the problems caused by Western drought.
Harris will meet federal and state officials at the largest manmade reservoir in the U.S. in an effort to promote Biden administration infrastructure and climate change proposals that have stalled in Congress. Water levels at Lake Mead, created in the 1930s, have fallen to record lows. U.S. officials in August declared the first-ever water shortage at the Colorado River, which means Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will get less water than normal next year amid a gripping drought.
Two major California water agencies have settled a lawsuit that once threatened to derail a multi-state agreement to protect a river that serves millions…
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly will chair an oversight hearing on western drought Wednesday.Kelly, a Democrat, is a member of the Committee on Energy and Natural…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the humpback chub from endangered to threatened status after a…