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Navajo Nation

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up.

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main
Red Feather staff (from left) Duane Tsinigine, Tavanne Sousa and Tyler Puente stand next to a heat pump installed with the nonprofit’s help at a home on the Hopi Reservation. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them

By Wyatt Myskow

An abandoned oil well sits on a hillside on Tribal land near Farmington, N.M. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

Many on Navajo Nation Blindsided by Hydrogen Pipeline Change

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

A view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?

By Jake Bolster

Tennile Lopez (left) shapes blue corn dough while Bertha Etsitty (right) explains the process of blue corn mush on Nov. 25 at the food gathering summit held by Diné College's Land Grant Office. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Traditional Foods, and the Threats They Face, Take Center Stage at Navajo Summit

By Noel Lyn Smith

Apache Stronghold members and supporters stopped in Gallup, New Mexico, on Aug. 18. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Apache Group is Carrying a Petition to the Supreme Court to Stop a Mine on Land Sacred to the Tribe

By Noel Lyn Smith

One animal control program manager estimates that there are around 180,000 unhoused dogs on the reservation. Credit: iStock/Getty Images Plus via Grist

Rez Dogs Are Feeling the Heat From Climate Change

By Taylar Dawn Stagner, Grist

Participants in the "No Illegal Uranium Hauling" walk proceed along U.S. Route 89 on Friday in Cameron, Arizona. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

After Navajo Nation Condemns Uranium Hauling on Its Lands, Arizona Governor Negotiates a Pause

By Noel Lyn Smith

Residents and supporters walk southbound on New Mexico Highway 566 to the defunct uranium ore processing mill during the event on July 13 to remember the Church Rock uranium spill. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

In New Mexico, a Walk Commemorates the Nuclear Disaster Few Outside the Navajo Nation Remember

By Noel Lyn Smith

Mike Halona, executive director of the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources, talks about the purpose of the tribe’s energy summit on June 5 in Albuquerque. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Navajo Summit Looks at History and Future of Tribe’s Relationship With Energy

By Noel Lyn Smith

A view of the Lukachukai Mountains from the Cove Chapter house in Arizona on March 15. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

This Month’s Superfund Listing of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation’s Lukachukai Mountains Is a First Step Toward Cleaning Them Up

By Noel Lyn Smith

Entrances to a uranium mine are locked shut outside Ticaboo, Utah. Credit: Photo by George Frey/Getty Images

Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose

By Noel Lyn Smith

A view of the Colorado River from the Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon, Ariz. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Feds Deny Permits for Hydro Projects on Navajo Land, Citing Lack of Consultation With Tribes

By Noel Lyn Smith, Wyatt Myskow

Signs warning of health risks are posted outside the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in the community of Red Water Pond Road, N.M. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Online Dashboard Identifies Threats Posed by Uranium Mines and Mills in New Mexico

By Noel Lyn Smith

Dusk falls on the existing Southern Trails natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation as it passes through empty land west of Shiprock, New Mexico. Locals say someone showed up and put in the yellow markers a few months earlier. Credit: Jerry Redfern.

Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Farm fields in southwestern Utah were dry in the weeks leading up to a statewide drought declaration in 2018. Credit: Judy Fahys/InsideClimate News

Drought Fears Take Hold in a Four Corners Region Already Beset by the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Judy Fahys

Tribes Working to Buck Unemployment with Green Jobs

By Autumn Spanne

Navajo Nation Approves First Tribal 'Green Jobs' Legislation

By Laura Shin

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