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Lawmakers, witnesses grapple with how to save Navajo Generating Station
Witnesses and lawmakers called for action Thursday to head off the 2019 closure of the Navajo Generating Station, a move that could mean the loss of thousands of jobs at the plant and the coal mine that fuels it.
Closing the Navajo Generating Station comes with disastrous consequences
Citing the costs of complying with federal environmental regulations and responding to the declining prices of natural gas, the Navajo Generating Station's owners voted earlier this year to take the facility offline about 25 years ahead of schedule. Those same factors have driven the closures of many coal-fired electricity generating plants nationwide.
Peabody says potential buyers could keep Navajo Generating Station open
Navajo leaders expressed hope October 2 that the Navajo Generating Station will be able to continue operations past 2019, after Peabody Energy said it had come up with a list of potential investors in the plant.
Jobs safe for now, Navajo council OKs lease extension for Arizona coal plant
The Navajo Nation Council has approved a lease extension to allow a coal-fired power plant in northeastern Arizona to continue operating through December 2019.
Navajo coal plant deal expected soon, nation president says
Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has said a proposed deal has been reached to keep an electricity-generating reservation coal plant open until 2020.
Hard choices ahead as officials look at future of Navajo power plant
Despite pledges to look for alternatives, closing the Navajo Generating Station in Page could devastate the local economy, where hundreds of jobs rely on the plant and affiliated coal mine and where experts see few, if any, workable solutions.
State of Indian Nations: Hopeful, but cautious, as Trump replaces Obama
Tribal leaders said they hope to see a continuation of the gains in tribal and federal relations under the Trump administration that began during the Obama administration.
Navajo hope to digitally preserve thousands of hours of oral history
The Navajo National Library is asking the Navajo Nation Council for $230,520 to digitize the five dusty filing cabinets of tapes so the collection can be protected, distributed to schools and made available to others.
Some Navajo join lawmakers opposing Bears Ears national monument
Navajo Nation locals joined Utah lawmakers on September 21 to express opposition to any attempt to designate land around the Bears Ears site in southeastern Utah as a national monument.
Native Americans still fight for voting equality
Despite gaining the rights to citizenship and voting in 1924 from the federal government, Native Americans in some states could not vote until 1962. Those who live on reservations have consistently dealt with distances and language barriers when it comes to voting. But experts who have studied Native American voting rights said recent changes to legal requirements and provisions for voting have ex[...]
Navajo Nation sues feds over massive 2015 mine waste spill
One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes is suing the federal government over a massive mine waste spill that tainted rivers in three Western states.
Court rules Navajo Nation can seek immediate return of remains
A federal appeals court on Wednesday gave the Navajo Nation a chance to argue that remains found by the U.S. Parks Service at Canyon de Chelly should be immediately returned to the tribe.
