Colorado River Basin Candidates Wade Into Water Politics, but Winners Are Unlikely to Make Big Changes — SkimNews
Get the Energy newsletter
Daily energy & climate — solar, EVs, oil, the policy fights and tech bets shaping the transition. Free.
- Aaron Ford is Nevada’s attorney general and Democratic candidate for governor.
- Ford’s campaign accused Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo of “botched negotiations” over the future of the Colorado River.
- Andy Biggs is the Republican Party’s candidate for governor in neighboring Arizona; the supplied text shows him beginning a Colorado River-related statement but cuts off before it is complete.
- Colorado River Basin candidates are unlikely to make big changes if they win, the source’s central caveat to their involvement in water politics.
Why it matters: The immediate political consequence is scrutiny of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s Colorado River negotiations, an issue Ford has brought into Nevada’s gubernatorial race and Biggs into Arizona’s. Even with both candidates engaged, the source portrays the election as unlikely to produce substantial changes in the basin’s water politics.
Ask SkimNews
