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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Erik Kolsrud/Arizona Sonora News

Legislative roundup: Chinese organ harvesting, God Enriches, finance gold stars, confusing initiatives

Erik Kolsrud April 5, 2018

PHOENIX -- This week saw a host of memorials, resolutions, and other bills going through the Senate and House. While lofty-sounding and sometimes addressing big international issues, these are merely...

Solar Panel installation in scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo courtesy of N.E.R.D Power).

Arizona’s solar industry continues to grow despite Trump’s Tariff

Megan Lange March 12, 2018

Turns out, it is always sunny in Arizona. Arizona’s solar industry is optimistic according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) after President Trump passed a 30 percent tariff on all...

Existing power lines running through the San Pedro River Valley

The San Pedro River Valley: An energy battlefield

Emily Huddleston February 4, 2016

Cottonwoods shade a river where thousands of fish swim and millions of migrating birds stop. This green ribbon ebbs and flows through an otherwise charcoal brown valley. Dirt roads lead to farms...

Students at NAU prepare banners last year. Photo courtesy of Fossil Free NAU.

Students call for universities to divest funds from the fossil fuel industry

Zac Baker November 26, 2014

College students throughout the state are trying to make Arizona a little bit greener by urging their universities to divest millions of dollars from the fossil fuel industry. Students at both Northern...

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