Native Americans Are Saying No to Coal

Native Americans Are Saying No to Coal, and Yes to Solar

40 percent of people live without electricity, more than 90 percent live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate exceeds 80 percent.

Native Americans Opposition to Coal Exports Helps Wildlife

Yet Tribal objection, like the objections of conservationists and sportsmen alike, has seemingly been not enough to stop coal in its tracks.

Native American tribes dependent on fossil fuel resources rip Biden ...

Native American leaders said tribes nationwide continue to rely upon natural resources including fossil fuels to sustain their way of life ...

Coal and Native American tribal lands - Global Energy Monitor

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

The Native American Coal War - Forbes

As Ron Crossguns from the Blackfeet tribe's oil and gas department puts it, “It's our right. We say yes or no. I don't think the outside world ...

Fossil fuel extraction is harming Indigenous communities, say experts

... American Program (HUNAP), and the Native American Alumni of Harvard University. ... “Natural resources in the form of oil, coal and gas ...

The War on Coal Is Punishing Indian Country - Hoover Institution

None of this is to say that tribes should be required to develop their energy resources, but government agencies should not deprive them of the ...

Opinion | Native Americans and Coal: The Risks of Dependency

It's no small matter for tribes, which hold a third of the country's coal reserves. That's one side to the story of reservation dependence, on ...

Native Americans say power plants near tribal lands cause illness

While it's not conclusive that coal operations pose a direct danger to reservation residents, the Moapa Paiutes are one of several tribes ...

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

Sub-committee chairwoman U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, said 30 percent of coal reserves west of the Mississippi River are on tribal ...

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

For almost half a century, America's largest native reservation relied on coal: for jobs and economic vitality. Now the coal era on the Navajo reservation ...

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

The trip annoyed leaders of the neighboring Northern Cheyenne - a Native American tribe that chooses not to mine its coal reserves for ...

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 ...

At Standing Rock, A Battle Over Fossil Fuels and Land - Yale E360

What the protectors are doing is saying no to the continuation of ... coal mines — played in modern Native American history? How common ...

Energy Exploitation on Sacred Native Lands - Reimagine!

In short, America's reliance on centralized power for heating, transportation, and water services only results in more pressure on Indigenous peoples and our ...

What a New Mexico coal power plant demo means for Navajo Nation

For six decades, coal has provided for — and polluted — the Navajo Nation. Demolition of a power plant brings mixed emotions.

Energy development and Native Americans: Values and beliefs ...

For those who had not, we provided a brief description of what the project was – a coal power plant near Burnham, New Mexico – and we mentioned that there was ...

Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment ...

Previous conservation practices had been based on a presumption that Native Americans manipulated their environments using fire, and this research does not ...

Native Energy: From Fossil Fuels Below to Renewables Above - RMI

Coal has a long history on Native American reservations. Fifty reservations are within 20 miles of coal plants over a half-century old, ...

Coal plant on tribal land to close after powering US West | AP News

Navajo President Jonathan Nez said the tribe will lose between $40 million and $50 million annually from coal revenue and lease payments — money ...