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Colorado lawmakers have unveiled a bill to make large manufacturers pay for a new statewide recycling program. Utah is joining 20 other states in suing to end the federal transportation mask mandate.

A proposed bill in the Navajo Nation Legislature would repeal a portion of a law that prohibits same sex marriage. And Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and First Lady Nez met with officials at the White House last week.

Snowpack levels in the Four Corners show small signs of improvement over last year, but some areas in the Southwest may face water shortages later this year. Avian influenza is affecting egg production, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says "no" to opening reserve croplands.

The Colorado Senate has approved a thirty six billion dollar state budget. And Colorado lawmakers are advancing a bill to make it a crime for residents to use their cell phones while driving.

Colorado lawmakers are advancing several bills to prevent wildfires, including an effort to chip away at a backlog of forest thinning projects. And modeling estimates 90% of Coloradans are now immune to the omicron variant and even more are protected against severe disease, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

One lawmaker in Utah’s House of Representatives has brought back legislation that would require Utahns to undergo expanded background checks for firearms transfers, but it failed to pass out of committee.

Colorado Democrats advanced a bill last week that would make it a crime to openly carry a gun near a polling center or ballot drop box. And a new study found lesbian, bi-, pan- and a- sexual women in Utah are four times less likely to graduate high school than heterosexual women.

New research shows corn ethanol and other biofuels are not cutting carbon emissions overall, soil loss from cultivated cropland in the U.S. continues to be a problem, and recently published data show that 2021 saw the highest level of U.S. agricultural exports ever.

Former Aspen City Councilor Adam Frisch is running for U-S Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s seat. And a new study of historical climate records finds the West’s current drought is the driest stretch in twelve-hundred years.

Colorado Democrats are advancing a bill to protect workers who raise safety concerns from retaliation. New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham lifted the state’s overall mask mandate on Thursday.