PRESS RELEASE – PNM/Avangrid merger: Coalition secures $12.5M in “just transition” funding, pathway to better future for NM fossil-fuel impacted communities Tribal and conservation groups secured significant community investment and other benefits as part of a proposed settlement in the merger case between PNM Resources and Avangrid, an energy company pursuing a transition away from […]
If it were not for THE enduring work of Dine’ CARE and Tó Nizhóní Ání (Sacred Water Speaks), Legislation 0138-20 would not exist and neither would an agreement between Los Angeles and the Navajo Nation. Legislation 0138-20 seeks the support of the Navajo Council Resources & Development Committee and Naabik’Iyati Committee to adopt a Navajo […]
Diné citizens call for respect of Diné Fundamental Law and accountability on economics of coal operations, as they ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear case on coal mine expansion and power plant extension operations Burnham, NM. September. 13, 2019 – The longtime Navajo organization, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, is joining […]
Upon Middle River Power Announcement, Navajo Community Calls to Redouble Efforts to Transition to Renewable Energy As Middle River Power backs away from efforts to purchase Navajo Generating Station, local Navajo community leaders issued the following statement reacting to the news: “Based on economics alone, this plant was never going to make it past 2019. […]
PRESS RELEASE – Navajo community members gather outside Navajo Council summer session to protest negotiations with Wall Street “vulture capitalists” on NGS WHAT: As the Navajo Nation Tribal Council convenes for its summer legislative session, members of the Navajo advocacy group Diné CARE and others will gather outside council chambers in Window Rock to voice […]
WHAT IS FRACKING AND DOES IT BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITIES? Panel at 30th anniversary of Dine’ CARE at Dilcon, NM, SW Fairgrounds SAM SAGE, TRI-CHAPTER ADVOCATE in 2003, started working with Dine CARE and they were working on what Navajo reservation would look like in next five years. Like white sheet and sprinkles of black pepper […]
Here at Dine’ CARE 30th anniversary Celebration at Dilcon, Az., SW Fairgrounds. Navajo Nation Supreme Court Chief Justice Emeritus Herb Yazzie presented an awesome history and analysis of the 1868 Treaty, which I’ll post as soon as I can. Right now there is a panel on Water Rights and former Navajo Nation Council Delegate and […]
The Hopi Tribe, Navajo grass-roots organizations, and clean air and national park advocates filed legal challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection’s decision to allow Navajo Generating Station to “continue polluting for the next three decades.” That according to Oct. 7, 2014 press releases from Black Mesa Water Coalition of Flagstaff, Ariz., To’Nizhoni Ani (Beautiful Water […]
GREETINGS RELATIVES/FRENS/HUMANS, A LANDMARK AGREEMENT FOR REESPECT FOR MOTHER EARTH AND THE NAVAJO WAY OF LIFE WAS MADE BETWEEN NAVAJO GRASSROOTS GROUPS AND FEDERAL COAL MINING ENTITES!!!! MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON MOTHER EARTH!!!! “Native and environmental groups win critical protections for Black Mesa land. Federal mine regulators now under mandate to give greater consideration to […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I just wanted to share my weekly news update that I presented on tonight’s Politics on the Navajo Nation, which is a weekly blog talk radio show produced by my good fren, Cal Nez, who is also a small business owner. Cal Nez Design is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cal’s blog […]
