Posts by Tó Nizhóní Ání “Sacred Springs Speaks”
PEABODY TO CANCEL HEALTH CARE BENEFIT FOR RETIRED COAL MINERS
Peabody Energy is ending a health care benefit program for retired miners as a cost-saving measure. The St. Louis-based coal giant announced plans last week to discontinue coverage of medical expenses for workers enrolled in Medicare and to stop providing life insurance to retirees, The Casper Star-Tribune reported. The change is expected to go into effect…
Read More‘EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE CORN’: AS CROPS WITHER, THE HOPI FEAR FOR THEIR WAY OF LIFE
For 2,000 years, the Hopi have been growing corn in an arid landscape, relying on the rains. Now climate change threatens their farming traditions. READ MORE
Read MoreVIDEO: A JUST TRANSITION AT NAVAJO GENERATING STATION
For 50 years, outside power companies profited from the exploitation of precious Navajo & Hopi water and resources, which supported coal plants like “NGS” and polluted Navajo land, depleting the source of drinking water for many Navajo and Hopi. Watch now → https://bit.ly/JustTransitionNGS
Read MoreACC RECOGNIZING JUST AND EQUITABLE TRANSITION FOR TRIBAL COMMUNTIES
NATIONAL ECONOMIC TRANSITION PLATFORM
BREAKING: Leaders from coal communities across America today released their historic platform for bolstering regions hit hard by the declining industry–a crisis deepened by the Covid pandemic. In their National Economic Transition Platform, local, tribal and labor leaders call on national and federal leaders to make a big, bold investment in communities from Appalachia to…
Read MoreWORC REPORT ON RECLAMATION JOBS
Help us spread the word via social media with the following handles and hashtags. Ahéhee’! Handles: @NNPrezNez @NavajoCouncil @RepRaulGrijalva @peabodyenergy @OSMRE @BlackMesaTrust @DineCARE1 Hashtags: #NavajoEquitableEconomy #NavajoNation #HopiTribe #ReclamationJobs Navajo/Hopi This is cleanup on the #NavajoNation a year AFTER Kayenta coal mine closed. Hundreds of miners are eager to go back to work on reclamation but…
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