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2. Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 110°23′55″W. Peabody Energy mined coal at the Black Mesa plateau in the southwestern United States from the 1960s until 2019. The plateau overlaps the Navajo and Hopi reservations . Controversy arose from an unusually generous mineral lease agreement between the Tribes and Peabody Energy and the company's depletion of the ...

3. Navajo Nation - Wikipedia

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   Navajo Woman at a waterfall c. 1920. The Navajo Nation ( Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo ), also known as Navajoland, [3] is a Native American reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona .

4. Navajo Generating Station - Wikipedia

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   Navajo Generating Station. /  36.90333°N 111.39028°W  / 36.90333; -111.39028. Navajo Generating Station was a 2.25-gigawatt (2,250 MW ), coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Nation, near Page, Arizona, United States. This plant provided electrical power to customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California.

5. Native American tribes gain new authority to stop unwanted ...

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   Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water ...

6. Kayenta Mine - Wikipedia

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   The Kayenta mine was a surface coal mine operated by Peabody Western Coal Company, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy) on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona from 1973 to 2019. About 400 acres were mined and reclaimed each year, providing about 8 million tons of coal annually to the Navajo Generating Station.: 1

7. Navajo Mine and Railroad - Wikipedia

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   Navajo Mine and Railroad. The Navajo Mine is a surface coal mine owned and operated by Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) in New Mexico, United States, within the Navajo Nation. The mine is about 20.5 miles (33 km) southwest of Farmington, New Mexico. The Navajo Mine Railroad has 13.8 miles (22.2 km) of track between the Four Corners ...

8. Window Rock, Arizona - Wikipedia

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   Window Rock, known in Navajo as Tségháhoodzání ( pronounced [tsʰéɰáhòːtsání] ), is a city and census-designated place that serves as the capital of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe by both land and tribal enrollment. [3] The capital lies within the boundaries of the St. Michaels Chapter, adjacent to the Arizona ...

9. United States v. Navajo Nation (2009) - Wikipedia

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   United States v. Navajo Nation, 556 U.S. 287 (2009) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Navajo Nation initiated proceedings in the Court of Federal Claims alleging that when they sought the assistance of the United States Secretary of the Interior to renegotiate their original leasing agreement with the Peabody Coal Company in 1984, a procedural process defined by the 1964 ...