The California Department of Fish and Game has issued a new restoration plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The "Draft Ecosystem Restoration Program Conservation Strategy" will, according to state officials, guide future efforts to conserve wetlands habitat in the Delta region and improve water flow in the estuary.

Members of the Tea Party movement have been called a lot of nasty things before like: crazy, extremists, teabaggers, and racists, but in the final hours of the debt ceiling debate, just one month before the ten-year anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, many Democrats, including Vice President Joe Biden, have been calling Tea Party members the nastiest name yet: terrorists.

Research shows that almost half of all Arizona mortgages were "underwater” by the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2011.

Based on the latest report from the office of the Arizona Secretary of State, both major parties continue to lose support as the growth rate of Arizona's Independent voter base further intensifies.

EnviroMission, an Australian company, plans to build the world's largest solar tower energy plant in the world in Arizona by 2015. When completed, the central tower will be 2,625 feet tall, twice that of the Empire State Building, and one of the tallest structures on the planet.

In the Public Policy Institute of California's (PPIC) eleventh annual survey on environmental policy issues, 75% said they believe global warming is a very serious or somewhat serious threat to the economy and quality of life in California, including 82% of Democrats, 77% of Independents and 45% of Republicans.