Find out why Great Basin taxpayers get few jobs and staggering cleanup costs when multinational corporations mine for gold.

Mercury air pollution from Nevada's gold mines threatens public health and the environment. Learn how Great Basin Resource Watch is working to convince the state to adequately address the issue. 

Learn how Nevada's scarce water resources face large-scale depletion and contamination.

Learn about mercury, arsenic and radioactivity at mine sites across the Great Basin.

The precious groundwater in the agricultural community of Yerington, Nevada, has been contaminated by the Anaconda Copper mine, operated for several decades until 1980, and threatens nearby residents’ well water.

The Ruby Pipeline L.L.C. (El Paso Corporation) has proposed a natural gas pipeline from Wyoming to Idaho cutting all across northern Nevada.  For over a year tribes and environmental groups have been strongly opposed to the route that the proposed pipeline would take, especially the section through northern Nevada. 

CLEAN (Clean Local Energy Accessible Now) - Nevada

Developing Nevada's economy, promoting energy independence for all Nevadans, protecting property rights, and creating jobs. The clean, renewable energy that will be developed through CLEAN Nevada is a smart investment in Nevada’s future.

CLEAN Nevada will spur the development of (transition to) clean energy across Nevada by enabling all Nevadans to participate in and benefit from the installation of clean renewable energy systems on homes, businesses, apartments, condos, and farms across our state.

It is a smart, innovative investment in clean energy and energy independence for all Nevadans.

We believe that nothing short of an energy revolution is needed to address America's dirty energy dilemma, and that we stand at a crossroads; one road leading to possible disaster, the other pointing to a renewable energy society.  The thrust of our work in energy is facilitation of distributed and “community-owned” renewable electrical production on “brownfields,” already developed and disturbed lands, to offset the need for large-scale production on undeveloped lands.

Using legal and media action with the Western Shoshone people and ally communities, we have been trying to protect the special cultural site of Mt. Tenabo including the sacred waters within from the destructive forces of a large-scale gold mine.

There are several projects that we are currently monitoring.  The issues range from affected communities, and potentially impacted cultural and environmental areas.

Learn how GBRW actively offers support to rural communities and how we promote civic engagement.