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Navajo residents seek 'just and equitable' help after closure of power plant, coal mine
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRoberto Nutlouis says residents of Navajo Nation communities directly hurt by the closure of a huge...
Pollution from coal-fired power plants led to hundreds of deaths in Arizona, NM, study says
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAn estimated 460,000 people died of causes attributed to fine particulates from coal power...
Hopi tribal officials continue to pursue compensation for loss of coal mine revenue
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMore than four years after the closure of an Arizona power plant and the coal mines that supplied...
Arizona coal plant communities lose out on millions in economic transition funding
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCommunities economically reliant on the Cholla Power Plant, located between Winslow and Holbrook...
Proposed settlement a first step in securing Colorado River water for 3 tribes
KDVR Denver via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute tribes are hoping to close the deal quickly under a...
US shift away from coal hits tribal community in New Mexico
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe clamor of second graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a...
Arizona tribes wait for water as settlements languish in courtrooms and bureaucracy
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNearly everybody in the tangled web of water law and policy agrees that Indigenous people hold...
Diné activist receives prestigious Heinz Award for her work on water, mine reclamation
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNicole Horseherder, co-founder of the nonprofit Tó Nizhóní Aní, has been working to bring environmental justice surrounding the land, water, animals and people of her community of Black Mesa ...
Climate change, cost and competition for water drive settlement over tribal rights to Colorado River
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River...
New EPA rule compels San Juan, Four Corners coal plants to clean up ash waste
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMay 3—Two coal-fired power plants have towered for decades on opposite sides of the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico — twin engines generating immense energy for several Western states ...