Laurel Morales
Senior Field CorrespondentSenior Field Correspondent Laurel Morales (Flagstaff) has been a public radio reporter for 10 years; eight of them in Arizona. She has won several awards for her work, including national recognition from Public Radio News Director Inc. (PRNDI) for the only commentary she’s ever written. She prefers to highlight compelling voices other than her own and has covered blizzards, wildfires, floods and tornadoes. Morales came to northern Arizona from rural Minnesota where she worked as a reporter after receiving her master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
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U.S. and Mexican commissioners have signed an amendment to a 1944 treaty, which allocates water from the Colorado River to Mexico. -
About 30 million people in seven western States and two Mexican states depend on Colorado River water. After years of negotiations the U.S. and Mexico plan to sign a landmark water use agreement Nov. 20.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has imposed new pollution limits on three coal-fired Arizona power plants, aiming to protect the environment and air quality for wilderness areas and landmarks such as the Grand Canyon. The decision goes farther than the state’s plan and could force plants to shut down.
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Five years of sensitive talks over water rights between the United States and Mexico are finally reaching a conclusion. Government leaders plan to sign an agreement at the Morelos Dam in Mexico next week. -
The federal government will release torrents of water from the Glen Canyon Dam on November 19. The simulated flood will be the first in a regular series of experiments to send sediment down the Colorado River. The idea is to rebuild beaches and habitats in the Grand Canyon. -
A judge ordered the young men who started the largest wildfire in Arizona’s history to pay $3.7 million in restitution.
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