In this episode of Valley 101, producer Kaely Monahan 🌵 sits down with azcentral environment reporter Joan Meiners 🐝🚴‍♀️ to answer why the 5 C's are so important to Arizona and ask what they mean to you:
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Las preocupaciones sobre la salud mental por el cambio climático se han disparado en los últimos años. lavozarizona.com/story/noticias…

Ahora en español! 👇 ChispaAZ

🚨 Lack of Transparency Alert at Texas Tribune 🚨 As we approach negotiations, we're pushing to let all our members join bargaining sessions.

Why does the Tribune not want their workers to observe bargaining? 🤔 #OpenBargaining #FairWork 1/x

If you have never had to convince an editor to run a story, prove that there's some there there, show your receipts, you are not a journalist, you're a columnist or a pundit. If only YOU call yourself a journalist but no one claims you as their journalist, that's another red flag

Phoenix summers require double this commitment

Phoenix Salvation Army hotline was so overwhelming with record calls for help paying utility bills last summer that hotline had to shut down at times: abc15.com/news/local-new… ABC15 Arizona

The Guardian surveyed hundreds of the world's top climate experts:

- 77% think warming will hit 2.5C by 2100 (way above what scientists consider a manageable amount of warming)
- Just 6% think the internationally accepted target of limiting warming to 1.5C can be met

Y’all, we have to advocate for ourselves and be unapologetically noisy about it, or people are not going to understand all the ways that local journalism is in deep trouble right now. pewresearch.org/journalism/202…

Gotta say, Emily Pontecorvo is on a roll with her EPA power plant rule coverage. The regulation could be a win for the NET Power's Allam cycle CCS gas plant. But the Texas company just admitted in an SEC filing that it's not delivering 'net' power to the grid.
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+ best news story you had to hike 7 miles midday in June in the Arizona heat to get?

I can't stop thinking about these students who found out, during hours of violent attack, that neither their school nor their city would protect them. The police watched, made no arrests. latimes.com/california/sto…

City Council approved $8 million in federal funding for five projects that will build a total of 279 affordable apartment units across Phoenix. At each of the complexes, residents' income limits are capped at 60% of the area median income... azcentral.com/story/news/loc…