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Coal of the Navajo

Posted April 4, 2008



The Navajo Nation has announced plans to create a new wind-power plant on an Arizona reservation, but is also trying to build a coal-fired plant that critics bitterly oppose. An existing coal plant (at right) has been blamed for giving the area some of the dirtiest air in the state.


Photo: evenprimes