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EPA Approves Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant Air Permit

EarthJustice issued the following news release:

Despite objections from other federal agencies, the states of Colorado and New Mexico, local governments, Navajo tribal members and citizen groups, the EPA today issued an air quality permit for construction of the Desert Rock Energy Facility, an additional massive coal-fired power plant on Navajo land in northwest New Mexico.

"EPA's irresponsible, inappropriate decision has failed Navajo communities and needlessly sacrificed our air, land and water," said Dailan Long of Dine CARE. "It is a devastating blow to tribal members who continually suffer from the large coal complex encroaching upon our land."

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