by Will Greene

Word might be getting out.  The Arizona Corporation Commission, widely regarded as a lower-tier agency in terms of attention, is receiving heavy interest from a bevy of candidates eying its two open seats in 2014.  Fifteen months before any voting will take place, five candidates have formed exploratory committees, with more likely on the way.

Ryan Randazzo reported Tuesday night that Republican state Rep. Frank Pratt, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, annou...

by Will Greene

Nearly every actively publishing climate scientist in the world – the folks who wake up every day and go to work studying our climate system – has concluded that humanity’s release of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses is changing our planet in a dramatic and essentially permanent way.  Comparable periods in earth’s history where change occurred this rapidly coincided with extinction events of many species habiting the planet at the time.

That is why Arizona’s thought-le...

by Will Greene

Climate change is poised to whip Arizona in the 21^st century.  On a higher-emissions track experts with the US Global Change Research Program warn of an eight to ten degree Fahrenheit increase in average annual temperature in the US Southwest this century.  Imagine the hottest Phoenix summer day and add ten degrees to it.  Think of the Phoenix economic development pr consultant trying to spin this type of heat.  “Come to Phoenix, you’ll have a scorchingly good time!”

Asi...

by Will Greene

Jim Holway, a prominent advocate for water sustainability has indicated interest in a run for the Arizona Corporation Commission in 2014 according to jimholway.com.  This would make him the first non-incumbent 2014 ACC candidate to form an exploratory committee.  Two seats are open in next years mid-term contest, with Commissioner Gary Pierce terming off the Commission, and Commissioner Brenda Burns presumably running for re-election assuming she doesn’t throw her hat in for a...