Navajo Nation Council Tables Navajo Generating Station Lease

Anne Minard
April 19, 2013
The Navajo Nation Council has tabled a decision on a lease renewal with the Navajo Generating Station, the controversial, coal-fired power plant on tribal land near Page, Arizona...

Bad River Tribal Chairman Questions Wisconsin State Legislators Mining Consultation Practices

Pam Hughes
February 05, 2013
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are wondering what happened to government-to-government consultation when it comes to the Wisconsin State legislature—which allegedly r...

The Navajo Nation Seeks to End a Mining Lawsuit

Carol Berry
January 10, 2013
The Navajo Nation, facing conflict over the expansion of a mine that supplies coal to the Four Corners Power Plant, unsuccessfully invoked sovereignty in an environmental advocacy ...

Chickaloon Tribe Opposes Another Proposed Coal Mine

ICTMN Staff
October 17, 2011
With the controversial Wishbone Hill coal mine proceeding Near Sutton, in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of Southcentral Alaska, an organization has offered to lease a large tract of...

EPA Poised to Issue Industrial-emissions Rules

ICTMN Staff
March 16, 2011
Coal-plant mercury emissions will soon be regulated, good news for the tens of thousands of American Indians whose lives have been poisoned by mercury and other contaminants...

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