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WASHINGTON From a corner of the Senate chamber last week, Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the congressional representative from the Virgin Islands, was struck by the poignancy of the scene in front of her. Next to her, seated at a narrow wooden table, was Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado, the son of Eritrean immigrants and the first African-American to represent his state in Congress. Across from them at his new desk was Senator Raphael.
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Tribal Coal Fields Will Test Biden’s Environmental Justice Goals
A massive coal plant, demolished in December, was a linchpin of the Navajo and Hopi economies for nearly 50 years
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When three 775-foot-tall smoke stacks at the Navajo Generating Station came tumbling down in December, sending plumes of dust into the sky and thundering reverberations off the mesas of the Arizona high desert, it marked the end of an era.
The federal government was instrumental in engineering the rise of the 2,250-megawatt coal plant 45 years ago, one of the country’s largest prior to its closure in 2019.
Now, President Biden faces questions about how to replace it, marking an early test of his promises to weave environmental and social justice into his climate agenda.