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News and What's New::
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.
Souther 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.
EPA questions Desert Rock Draft EIS accuracy
On Aug. 24, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 submitted detailed comments to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) concerning the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed 1,500-megawatt (Mw) Desert Rock Energy Project on the Navajo Nation near Shiprock, N.M.
Mercury Emissions Adversely Affect Minorities
The cap-and-trade method for curbing mercury emissions will greatly harm those from the Great Lakes region, particularly American Indians, according to a new white paper released by the Center for Progressive Regulation (CPR).
Desert Rock Energy - Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
Desert Rock Energy Company, LLC proposes to construct a hybrid dry cooled coal-fired electric power-generating plant south of Farmington in northwestern New Mexico.
Toxic mercury blows north into Idaho
Conservation League asks EPA to investigate whether Nevada mine bypassed its pollution control equipment
Serious under-reporting of mercury reporting by Queenstake at Jerritt Canyon (Nevada) gold processing facility.
Recent mercury emissions testing has revealed that the Jerritt Canyon mine has significantly higher mercury emissions than previously reported. In 2005 (the last year for which data is available), Jerritt Canyon reported Hg emissions of 381 lbs to EPA. The new tests demonstrate that emissions may, in fact, be as high as 9,315 lbs.
Diné students apply wildlife education skills
On April 7, a group of 35 students and five teachers gathered at the edge of a typical high walled sandstone canyon of the Southwest, near the Navajo National Monument in northern Arizona.
No fake snow at Snowbowl, court rules
Operators of the Arizona Snowbowl won't be allowed to use treated wastewater to make snow, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that found the effort violated the religious freedom of more than a dozen American Indian tribes.
Celilo Legacy Project
Fifty years ago the gates of the Dalles Dam closed and the force of the Columbia River slowed until Celilo Falls, the location of a magnificent and important tribal salmon fishery, was inundated with water.
Navajos file petition against uranium mining in N.M.
Navajo tribal members went to court Monday to try to stop plans for uranium mining near the Navajo communities of Church Rock and Crownpoint in northwestern New Mexico.
SRP Ceases Effort to Restart Mohave Generating Station
Concludes that Timeline Delays would Render the Facility Economically Unfeasible
Fish testing reveals high Mercury levels in Wild Horse Reservoir
Public health, Sportmen, and Native Groups call for investigation.
Region 8 Tribal Environmental Programs - [pdf document]
A nice document about what the Region 8 tribes are up to in the air department!
Miscellaneous Environmental Resource News:
News and communications info at Indianz.com:
www.indianz.com
Southwest Center for Biological Diversity:
www.sw-center.org/swcbd/
High Country News:
www.hcn.org/
Center for Multicultural, Multilingual Research Native American Resources Page - lots of good links to tribes' websites, research, educational and language issues:
www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/Native_American.html
National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC) - great place to get updates on legal issues, other environmental issues impacting tribes and Indian country:
www.ntec.org
The Inter Tribal Timber Council - The ITC is a nation-wide consortium of Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, and individuals dedicated to improving the management of natural resources of importance to Native American communities - good links too!
www.itcnet.org/
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management - The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management is a non-profit corporation established to assist Indian tribes and other indigenous peoples in the sustainable utilization, management, development and conservation of their natural resources and protection of their environment. The Institute, through its staff and associates, brings years of experience and training to bear on the resource management, environmental protection and related human resource development problems of indigenous peoples.
www.iiirm.org/
Earth Island Journal - Local news from around the world.
www.earthisland.org/eijournal/journal.cfm
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