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News and What's New::
Coal Mines, Power Plants Give Navajos Income, Controversy
November 02, 2009
WINDOW ROCK - A green controversy fueled by coal-fired power plants is raging on America's largest Indian reservation.
Ecology vs. Need for Cash: Power Plant Splits Hopis
November 03, 2009
KYKOTSMOVI - According to tribal lore, the Hopi forefathers fled a corrupt underworld thousands of years ago by climbing
through a hollow tree to high mesas near the Grand Canyon.
Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual
November 03, 2009
MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) -- From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where
he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.
Ramona Band of Cahuilla Indians 100% off the energy grid
Ramona Band of Cahuilla
The Ramona Band of Cahuilla Indians of Southern California has become the first fully "off grid" reservation with
100 percent renewable energy power for all facilities. Over the past decade, the tribe received funding from the Department
of Energy, Housing & Urban Development and other agencies to build a sun and wind-powered energy system, and develop an
ecotourism and training business. The tribe is now developing an ecotourism center as a renewable energy destination resort.
The Eco-Center will also teach people about Cahuilla culture. The training component will provide consulting and ecotourism
start-up business services to enable other tribes to replicate or adapt this model for business development. Once the
Eco-Center opens in late 2010, the tribe will have the only Native American-owned facility to train other rural/remote tribes
to adapt this model for economic development
Posted on the USEPA Region 9 website: www.epa.gov/region09/awards/09/index.html#federal
President Shirley upset with remand of Desert Rock permit
May 05, 2009
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. last Monday expressed great disappointment at how the
Navajo Nation is being treated by the U.S. EPA regarding its decision to remand the Desert Rock Energy Project
permit to EPA Region 9.
Navajo Tribe Eyes Coal Plant As Economic Savior
March 16, 2009
Where's the toughest place in the U.S. to build a coal-fired power plant? The Navajo know.
President Shirley attends U.S. Supreme Court hearing
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Shirley to hear arguments in Navajo Nation's $600 million Peabody Coal case.
Mercury in Fructose food
Press Release from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Jan. 26, 2009
Much High Fructose Corn Syrup Contaminated With Mercury, New Study Finds Brand-Name Food Products Also Discovered to Contain Mercury.
EPA approves air permit for Navajo power plant
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Both environmentalists who have been fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation and
supporters of the project expected it: an air permit for the plant.
Alaska village sues over global warming
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Chukchi Sea sued oil, power and coal companies Tuesday, claiming that
the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to global warming that threatens the community's existence.
Southern Utes take on pollution
One of the nation's single largest controllers of pollution on Indian lands wants to monitor its own air quality, and eventually adopt even
tougher standards than those of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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