Coal and Native American tribal lands

Energy Minerals: Coal and Uranium - | Indian Affairs

The Native American lands of the United States are home to large coal reserves, coal mining, and coal plants. According to the Division of Energy and ...

Coal and Native American tribal lands - Global Energy Monitor

According to the Department of the Interior, twenty-five Native American reservations have coal reserves. Navajo, Hopi, and Crow lands all have ...

Native American Energy Sovereignty is Key to ... - Wilson Center

Native American lands are also home to large coal reserves, mines, and power plants. Navajo, Hopi, and Crow lands all have coal mines as well as ...

Indian Lands Program | Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and ...

Currently, OSMRE is the regulatory authority on coal mining and reclamation operations located on the Crow, Hopi, Navajo and Ute Mountain Ute reservations and ...

Native American Tribal Land & Renewable Energy Development

The Navajo, Hopi, and Crow lands, in particular, have produced coal for decades. Coal revenues have been a major contributor to these tribes' ...

Natural Resource Production on Native American Land

Several agencies within the Department of the Interior play a role in the process of developing oil, gas, coal, or nonenergy minerals on Native American land:.

A Pathway to Responsible Mining in Indian Country - CSIS

Historically, mining on tribal lands has been a tale of economic exploitation, abrogated agreements, stolen lands, environmental disasters, and ...

Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report: Chapter 7: Tribal Lands

Coal strip mining on Hopi, Navajo, and Crow tribal lands supply coal-fired power plants on and near these reservations, contributing to U.S. carbon emissions ( ...

Native American voices are finally factoring into energy projects

There is a long history of coal and uranium mining in Navajo territory in the Southwest, and tribal lands now are targets for renewable energy ...

The Native American Coal War - Forbes

In 2012 the Department of the Interior estimated that Indian lands have the potential to produce 5.35 billion barrels of oil, 37.7 trillion ...

Native Americans say power plants near tribal lands cause illness

The tribe has embraced coal production as a central component of its economy, and Navajo officials traveled to Washington in June to oppose ...

Energy Exploitation on Sacred Native Lands - Reimagine!

These groups have recently developed campaign strategies to help tribal community organizers working to either halt energy resource development on Native lands ...

Native American Tribes That Profit Off of Fossil Fuels - Energy Central

Although in the US, Native American reservations represent only 2% of the land, they hold about 20% of coal, oil, and gas reserves of the ...

In Montana's Indian country, tribes take opposite sides on coal

The Crow and Northern Cheyenne live miles apart but stand on opposite sides of US President Donald Trump's pro-energy agenda.

Coal: A Hopi Tradition | Grand Canyon Trust

Arizona has only one active coal mine, which operates on tribal land ... This means Native Americans, coal industry workers, and government ...

Native American Lands and Natural Resource Development

American Indian lands are estimated to include nearly 30 percent of the nation's coal reserves west of the Mississippi, as much as 50 percent of ...

Fossil fuel extraction is harming Indigenous communities, say experts

“Natural resources in the form of oil, coal and gas, uranium, were discovered on our tribal lands, and we were in the way, and so we became the ...

Coal Mining in Navajo Nation: Are the consequences worth it?

Lighting the West, dividing a tribe ... For almost half a century, America's largest native reservation relied on coal: for jobs and economic ...

Native American tribes have vast energy resources, but face barriers ...

Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, said 30 percent of coal reserves west of the Mississippi River are on tribal lands. “These untapped resources can be ...

Much of the mining for climate solution metals are on Indigenous lands

Now Indigenous groups that face increased mining for energy transition metals are coming together. Bender of the Hualapai tribe traveled from ...