Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 159)

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

In what may be the most glaring example of climate change...

Descending Drought Puts Klamath Tribes and Farmers on Brink of Water War

The Klamath Tribes possess the oldest water rights in the...

Navajo Council Forms Liability Company to Buy Navajo Mine

The Navajo Nation Council has voted to form a limited...

Tribes Benefit From Portion of Nearly $1 Million in Grants to 56 National Parks

Tribal culture may benefit from some of nearly $1 million...

Mississippi Water Walkers Arrive in Louisiana With Water From the River's Source

Today the mouth of the Mississippi River will drink from...

Fill Gaps in Keystone XL Draft Environment Report or Reject Pipeline, NCAI Tells Obama Administration

Noting a lack of “critical information” about potential...

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Enbridge Michigan Cleanup to Top $550 Million

ICTMN Staff

January 15, 2011

The cleanup costs for a July 2010 oil spill are still rising: Enbridge Energy Partners LP increased its estimate for a Michigan spill to $550 million, up 28 percent, Reuters report...

EPA Nixes Mountaintop Mining Project

ICTMN Staff

January 15, 2011

In a potentially precedent-setting reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 13 revoked permits for West Virginia’s 2,200-acre Spruce No...

Minnesota: $26 Million Available to Retire Flood-damaged Cropland

ICTMN Staff

January 14, 2011

Minnesota, cleaning up disastrous storm damage wreaked last September, has announced $26 million in funding to “retire marginal or damaged cropland” in southern parts of the state ...

Lummi Seek Energy Self-Sufficiency via Wind Power

ICTMN Staff

January 13, 2011

Native Americans have long venerated the wind. Now many are trying to harness a little of its power...

Meskwaki Nation Looks to Wind Power for the Future

Maria Scandale

January 13, 2011

This year the Meskwaki Nation is going to be watching the wind...

Rep. Young Will Fight Laws that Hinder Tribal Energy Development

ICTMN Staff

January 12, 2011

Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who assumed chair of the Natural Resources Committee’s new Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee on Dec...

Indian Country Conservancy to Restore Native Lands in Oregon

ICTMN Staff

January 12, 2011

The Indian Country Conservancy has received three grants totaling nearly $150,000 from leading foundations in Oregon...

Can Sunlight Power and Empower Tribes?

ICTMN Staff

January 12, 2011

Solar power can ignite a renaissance, reconnecting tribes to their lands while increasing autonomy...

Cape Wind Bogged Down in Lawsuits

Gale Courey Toensing

January 12, 2011

Eight months after the Obama administration approved what it hopes will be America’s flagship offshore industrial wind energy factory in the waters of Nantucket Sound that are sacr...

Jemez Pueblo and Santa Fe Forest in Historic Pact

Gale Courey Toensing

January 11, 2011

Just days after President Barack Obama announced U.S. support for the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the White House Tribal Conference on Dec...