Now that the Supreme Court has overthrown Roe V. Wade, Arizona’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks is in effect.

Alaska has very few good gun policies in place and suffers one of the highest rates of gun deaths in the nation.

The death penalty in Arizona was on hold by executive action until May 2022 when they started executing people again.

Large disparities in data sharing means a disproportionate number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls go unfound.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Alaska where a record 18 people died in their state prisons last year.

Alaskan chinook (king) salmon are in record breaking decline and need protection now.

Multiple mining operations risk the lives of wildlife and water quality in Alaska where extraction is big business and too often wins.

Some 90,000 members of the Navajo nation are underhoused or unhoused, and another 60,000 don’t have water in their homes.

The Sonoran Desert and it wildlife are under threat from development, mining, grazing, invasive species, rerouting rivers, and climate change.

Detained immigrants in Arizona do not have a right to public defenders and people in poverty often go without legal representation.

Nitrate-fouled water from concentrated animal feed operations in Minnesota causes a host of medical problems and water pollution.

In a national trend to reduce protections for children, Minnesota wants to allow 16 and 17 years old to work on construction sites.

Black and Indigenous pregnant Minnesotans have long faced more health disparities than their white counterparts.

Heavier rains and a rise in black flies makes nesting more challenging for the common loon putting them at great risk.

The Boundary Waters’ million+ acres of pristine forest, lakes, and streams are under constant pressure from mining and development.

Restoring timber wolves to the Western slope would provide immensely positive ecological, economic, and social opportunities for Coloradans, the overall ecosystem, and the wolves themselves.

As book banning proliferates, librarians in Arkansas have been at risk of persecution for giving books to minors if the state deems them harmful.

Northwestern Arkansas is growing rapidly, with development impacting unique and sensitive wildlife habitats.

Now that the Supreme Court has overthrown Roe V. Wade, abortion is completely banned in Arkansas with very limited exceptions.

Arkansas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.