Climate Change
-
Two years in, the Inflation Reduction Act is lowering health care costs and creating a clean energy jobs boom in Nevada
The law ensured that 21,000 Nevadans were able to keep their health insurance, reduced the cost of insulin for nearly 11,000 Nevada seniors, and incentivized manufacturers to invest in the state and create more clean energy jobs.
-
Here’s how the Biden-Harris administration is helping water levels rebound in the drought-stricken West
A snowier-than-usual winter combined with billions in federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act have helped stave off the worst of proposed mandatory cuts for states that depend on the Colorado River for water. Legislation enacted by the Biden-Harris administration seems to be helping water levels in Lake Mead rebound from…
-
Report: Nevada the highest rate of residents using tax credits to adopt residential solar
More than 2% of the Nevada households that filed a federal tax return last year received subsidies aimed at helping offset costs of residential renewable energy projects like solar panels. Nevada has the highest concentration of residents taking advantage of a tax credit program designed to help offset installation costs for residential solar panels and…
-
Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos
One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.
-
-
Nevada doesn’t have any rules to protect workers from extreme heat. That could change soon.
Approximately 307 people died in Southern Nevada last year due to heat-related injuries, experts told a panel of lawmakers earlier this month. You’ll never catch Las Vegas resident Gary Hernandez in one spot for too long. As the chief compliance officer for Sol-Up, one of the valley’s largest residential solar installation companies, Hernandez is the…
-
Nevada heat demands more than cooling centers, lawmakers told
Despite Nevada having two of the fastest warming cities in the nation — Reno and Las Vegas — the state has taken the least action to protect the public from the impacts of climate change.
-
Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill to help restore Lake Tahoe passes Senate
If signed into law by President Joe Biden, the bill would authorize federal officials to use $350 million in unallocated funds for Tahoe restoration projects. Legislation that would extend a program sending federal dollars to support the tourism economy around Lake Tahoe advanced out of the US Senate this week and will be further deliberated…
-
Buscan crear conciencia sobre la crisis que enfrentan diferentes especies de polinizadores
Una resolución bipartidista destaca la importancia de las abejas, los murciélagos y las mariposas durante la “Semana de los Polinizadores”.
-
CEO: New Clark County solar parts facility wouldn’t have been possible without Biden legislation
The opening of Unimacts’ 160,000-square-foot factory in Sloan will help expand Nevada’s presence in the clean energy sector and was only made possible because of the Inflation Reduction Act, CEO Alan Hays said. For decades, Alan Hays made a living advising manufacturing companies to cut costs by shipping jobs from one country to another, where…
