Tribal Coal Fields Will Test Biden's Environmental Justice Goals
Scientific American 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 Advertisement 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 pr...