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11/10/2011 Navajo Times: Funds available for Freeze families, panel says
11/10/2011 Navajo Times: Funds available for Freeze families, panel says By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times. WINDOW ROCK: The Navajo-Hopi Land Commission reports that it has nearly $4 million available to start helping Navajo families in the former Bennett Freeze area. “This is the latest funding for the recovery of the area,” the NHLC office stated in a recent report to the Navajo Nation Council. The money is from an escrow account. For 30 years, 1966 to 1996, Navajo families in the Bennett Freeze area were prohibited from making improvements to their homes because of federal restrictions put in place at the behest of the Hopi Tribe, which claimed prior rights to the land.... Read More
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Tagged Bennett Freeze, forgotten people, government accountability, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation Gaming Enerprise, Navajo Times, Navajo-Hopi Land Commission, prohibited, Raymond Maxx, rehabilitation trust funds
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10/27/2011 Navajo Times: Bogus bonuses – 2 Tuba City officials removed for scamming illegal bonuses
10/27/2011 Navajo Times: Bogus bonuses – 2 Tuba City officials removed for scamming illegal bonuses By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: Two officials for Toh Nanees Dizi Chapter has been removed from office in the investigation into five officials accused of illegally paying themselves bonuses totaling over $80,000. Jimmy Holgate, who served on the chapter governing council, was removed on Tuesday when he failed to show up for a hearing before the Office of Hearings and Appeals. The hearing included witnesses who had traveled all of the way from Tucson. As a result of the default judgment, Holgate will have to reimburse the chapter $7,644 and cannot run for public office for five years.... Read More
10/20/2011 Navajo Times: Former MacDonald prosecutors replace Balaran
10/20/2011 Navajo Times: Former MacDonald prosecutors replace Balaran By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: The Special Division of the Window Rock District Court has decided to go with experience in replacing Alan Balaran as special prosecutor. The division last week approved hiring Santa Fe law firm of Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom & Schoenburg as the new special prosecutor. “The Rothstein law firm, led by attorneys Eric Dahlstrom and Richard Hughes, will continue the investigations into alleged misuse of discretionary funds by high ranking officials of the Navajo Nation,” a press release from the attorney general’s office stated.... Read More
10/14/2011 Gallup Independent: Law firm selected as special prosecutor
10/14/2011 Law firm selected as special prosecutor By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – The law firm that successfully prosecuted former Navajo Nation Chairman Peter MacDonald and other tribal officials 20 years ago has been named to succeed Alan Balaran as the Nation’s special prosecutor. Deputy Attorney General Dana Bobroff announced Thursday that the Special Division of Window Rock District Court appointed the nationally prominent Rothstein Law Firm to continue the investigations into Navajo Nation Council delegates’ use of discretionary funds, alleged crimes by tribal officials involved in contracts or payments to OnSat Network Communications and BCDS Manufacturing, the tribal ranch program and other matters assigned to the Special Division.... Read More
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Tagged Alan Balaran, BCDS Manufactoring, Gallup Independent, government accountability, Kathy Helms, Louis Denetsosie, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Chairman Peter MacDonald, Navajo Nation Council, OnSat Network Communications, Rothstein Law Firm, US News & World Report
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10/13/2011 Navajo Times: Sierra Club blasts feds for ‘rubber-stamping’ mine permits
10/13/2011 Navajo Times: Sierra Club blasts feds for ‘rubber-stamping’ mine permits By Cindy Yurth, Tséyi’ Bureau: A Sierra Club spokesman Tuesday blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Surface Mining for “rubber-stamping” two permits for Peabody Western Coal Co.’s Kayenta Mine, saying they had not seriously considered the impacts on the environment and the community. The US EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board this week finalized a water discharge permit for the mine over the objections of the Sierra Club, the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, which claimed in an appeal that wastewater from the mine contains heavy metals that could end up in drinking and irrigation water.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, coal mining, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Generating Station, Peabody Coal Company, Water
Tagged Andy Bessler, FONSI, government accountability, groundwater reclamation bond, Hopi Tribe, hydrology, injury to water, Kayenta mine, Navajo Nation, Navajo Times, Office of Surface Mining, Peabody Western Coal Company, Sierra Club, US EPA Environmental Appeals Board
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10/11/2011 The New York Times: Groups Sue After E.P.A. Fails to Shift Ozone Rules
10/11/2011 The New York Times: Groups Sue After E.P.A. Fails to Shift Ozone Rules JOHN M. BRODER: WASHINGTON — Five health and environmental groups sued the Obama administration on Tuesday over its rejection of a proposed stricter new standard for ozone pollution, saying the decision was driven by politics and ignored public health concerns. The groups said that President Obama’s refusal to adopt the new standard was illegal and left in place an inadequate air quality rule from the Bush administration. Near the end of his presidency, George W. Bush overruled the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific advisory panel and set the permissible ozone exposure at 75 parts per billion.
The current E.P.A. administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, wanted to set the standard at 70 parts per billion, near the maximum level recommended by the advisory panel. But President Obama rejected that proposal on Sept. 2, saying that compliance would be too costly and create too much regulatory uncertainty for industry. He ordered the E.P.A. to conduct further scientific studies and come up with a new proposal in 2013.... Read More
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Tagged asthma, coal mining, EPA, government accountability, heart attacks, lung, Obama, ozone, ozone pollution, ozone rules, premature deaths, President Obama, public health, smog, The New York Times
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9/29/2011 Navajo Times: A Helping Hand: Ministry builds hogans to help elderly, family in need
Vision Ministry of America volunteers Jonathan Yazzie, right, and Marvin Begaye, work on putting the finishing touches on the roof of the hogan Sept. 22 in Lukachukai, Ariz: 9/29/2011 Navajo Times: A Helping Hand: Ministry builds hogans to help elderly, family in need By Alastair Lee Bitsoi: To help address the housing shortage on the Navajo Nation, Vision Ministry of America has decided to build hogans for those in need.
With the help of 28 volunteers from Tennessee and Texas, the ministry coordinated a mission to construct three hogans at a total cost of $9,000 in the communities of Cove, Lukachukai and Red Valley. Vision Ministry is based in Azle, Texas, outside Fort Worth, and is supported through a network of individuals and an association of churches.... Read More
10/10/2011 Navajo Times: Court orders protects documents, Balaran ends job: ‘going fishing’
10/10/2011 Navajo Times: Court orders protects documents, Balaran ends job: ‘going fishing’ By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: Alan Balaran, who stepped down as special prosecutor on Friday, stirred up a hornet’s nest with his court filings over concerns for financial documents housed in Administration Building No. 1. It’s an issue that seemingly didn’t want to die even after Window Rock District Court Judge Carol Perry ruled in a hearing on Sept. 26 that no documents could be removed from the building. Last Friday, Perry issued a formal order saying no documents could be taken out of the building or destroyed without the court’s permission.... Read More
10/20/2011 Navajo Times: Delegates say lawyer went too far with reform bill