"Dark money, by its nature, is hard to detect. But its effects on our nation’s elections and how we’re governed are becoming increasingly visible. Take, for example, a video that circulated recently on social media in Arizona. It opens with a Republican member of Arizona’s Corporation Commission meeting the head of a GOP environmental group [...]
Congressman Bishop “Red Washes” Tribal Prosperity and Energy Development Field Hearing Excludes Tribal Community Leaders and Members Discussing Tribal Energy Disparity Santa Fe, NM – Today Utah Congressman Rob Bishop held a field committee hearing <http://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hearing_memo_--_ov_field_hrg_on_indian_energy_santa_fe_nm_10.04.16.pdf> entitled “Tribal Prosperity and Self-Determination through Energy Development,” which presented a one-sided view of energy development on tribal lands. Navajo community [...]
Jordan Wirfs-Brock/Inside Energy This article originally appeared at Inside Energy. The Clean Power Plan is a federal rule aimed at cleaning up the carbon footprint of our electricity. As we head into a legal battles over whether the rule is an overreach of federal power, it’s important to ask… How big of a difference will it actually make? [...]
By Jonathan Romeo Herald staff writer John Kantner spent the better part of his career as an archaeologist trying to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Chaco Canyon civilization. He, like many of his colleagues, was left with only theories and shots in the dark. The problem seemed to be that the answer to lingering [...]
Letter Comes on Heels of Report Showing White House Influence on “Messaging” in the June 2015 Study Washington, D.C. – Led by Food & Water Watch, more than 200 public interest and environmental groups — including Sierra Club, Indigenous Environmental Network, NRDC, Greenpeace, Earthjustice, League of Conservation Voters, Union of Concerned Scientists, Friends of the [...]
by James Fenton Buy Photo (Photo: Noel Lyn Smith/The Daily Times) FARMINGTON — "Like many fossil fuels-based companies faced with record low commodities prices in a prolonged "bust" cycle, the Navajo Nation's sole oil and gas company is facing some significant challenges this year. Established as a federally chartered Section 17 corporation with authority granted by the tribal [...]
Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E reporter Secretary of State John Kerry signs the Paris Agreement on behalf of the United States at the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New York. While the international climate deal was struck before the Supreme Court issued a stay on the Clean Power Plan, some say the United States will have [...]
by David Archambault II "It is a spectacular sight: Thousands of Indians camped on the banks of the Cannonball River, on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Our elders of the Seven Council Fires, as the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, is known, sit in deliberation and prayer, awaiting [...]
Santa Fe, NM: A report <http://westernvaluesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Parks-Drilling-Report-8-24-16-.pdf> released Thursday by the Western Values Project on the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service found oil and gas development near national parks is driving away visitors at significant rates. The report highlights visitation trends at five national park units in four Western states, and correlates declining visitation [...]
"The National Park Service is commemorating 100 years of protecting some of our most spectacular landscapes. Our willingness to set aside these areas as national parks – to declare their preservation to be of the highest importance – shows that we are a magnanimous, forwardlooking people. And we have come to discover, almost by accident, [...]