SEARCHLIGHT NEWS
Participants in a welding program for minimum-security inmates are pictured at Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Oct. 7, 2024. (Photo by John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)
By John Hult
Inmates in the Sioux Falls area can now access Pell Grants to pay for slots in welding courses in the community and diesel mechanic courses inside prison walls.
Students can apply for federally funded Pell Grants to help them pay for post-secondary education. Since 2023, inmates in the U.S. have been allowed to apply for and receive them through a program called Second Chance Pell Grants.
COMMENTARY
Water polluted by acid rock drainage is stored on July 17, 2023, in the Anchor Hill Pit, to eventually be treated and discharged at the Gilt Edge Mine, an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund cleanup site near Lead, South Dakota. (Photo Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)
By Brad Johnson
Rapid City residents have packed public meetings debating data centers’ enormous electricity demands and potentially significant water consumption.
Meanwhile, the proposed Dewey–Burdock uranium mine in the southwestern Black Hills is seeking permission to use groundwater to deliberately change its chemistry, potentially threatening a major underground aquifer extending beyond South Dakota’s borders.
The first controversy has attracted considerable public attention, and the second deserves at least as much.
FROM STATES NEWSROOM
Aleksandra Karapetrov collecting fresh snowfall to measure microplastics. (Sonya Maple/CDFW)
By Jennifer Solis/Nevada Current
Microplastics are everywhere — including in Nevada’s snowpack.
After years of skiing on freshly fallen snow in remote locations across the Sierra Nevada, Aleksandra Karapetrov — an environmental toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside — wondered how pristine the snow really was.
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