Staff Writer Article Launched: 07/01/2008 11:17:23 PM MDT Editor: Deliberate use of our Trust Funds or any other Diné money to cover reckless spending on ridiculous pork-barrel projects is irresponsible and scandalous. Year after year we have heard and seen wasteful spending by our government. We suffer from lack of medical services, no homes for our Elders, terrible roads such as U.S. 491 — and...

N.M. planning commercial solar plant LPEA supplier is one of several partners in project July 3, 2008 By Dale Rodebaugh | Herald Staff Writer The company that supplies power for La Plata Electric Association has joined three other large electricity providers in New Mexico to build that state's first commercial solar-powered generating plant, it was announced this week. Jim Van Someren, spokesman fo...

By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press Article Launched: 06/30/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT SANDERS, Ariz. — Unlike most of the vast, impoverished Navajo Nation, in this town all the roads are paved, schools and clinics are a short drive away, and everyone has electricity and running water in their homes. Those modern conveniences are what lured hundreds of Navajo families to the "new lands" — ranch l...

Contact: Virginia Cramer, 804-225-9113 x 102 Court Rules Coal Plant Must Regulate Global Warming Pollution Case Marks First Time a Court Has Cited Landmark Supreme Court CO2 Ruling Richmond, VA: In an unprecedented move today, a Georgia state court has ruled that a new coal plant must limit the amount of carbon dioxide it releases. In April 2007 the Supreme Court issued a ruling recognizing that ca...

Kansas governor turns away from coal plants June 27, 2008 By Joe Hanel | Herald Denver Bureau DENVER - A year ago, Kathleen Sebelius was just a Democratic governor in a small, Midwestern, Republican state. Today, she's a major enemy of the coal industry, a hero of environmentalists and a possible vice presidential choice for Sen. Barack Obama. Sebelius visited the Denver Athletic Club on Thursday t...