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The state of California has awarded $44 million for 15 projects, including funding for a tribal organization to acquire 80 acres in Lake County for Indigenous-led ecological restoration, cultural programs and job training.
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Wahleah Johns (Navajo) recalls growing up near a massive coal mine in northern Arizona. Coal from the mine helped power much of the western United States — while tribal members just miles away went without electricity.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has halted a proposed transmission corridor that tribal leaders hoped would unlock grid investment needed to develop and export power from reservations across the northern Plains.
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Tribal energy projects can require navigating as many as a dozen federal agencies, lengthy permitting processes and significant development costs before construction begins. The Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is laying out a strategy it says will make that process easier — while putting more federal resources behind projects led by tribes.
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The Walker River Paiute Tribe has completed negotiations with NV Energy over a trespass dispute involving an expired power line easement and new rights of way for the utility’s Greenlink West transmission project, according to the tribe’s chairwoman.
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The Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians has begun construction on a $3.7 million solar project that will serve as the first piece of a planned tribal utility capable of eventually powering the tribe’s homes, government operations and businesses.
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A federal appeals court has left in place a court order that blocks stops the Environmental Protection Agency from canceling $20 billion in clean energy grants and taking back money that had already been distributed. The funding includes about $1.5 billion expected to support tribal and Native-serving projects.
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The game was supposed to change. Then, largely, it didn’t.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will make up to $218.5 available to federally recognized tribes and corporations for energy efficiency upgrades for tribal homes.
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A California tribe expects to cut its electricity costs nearly in half after completing a 2.23‑megawatt solar carport project that required no upfront tribal capital.