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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will rehear a dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency’s freeze of billions in federal grants, including an estimated $1.5 billion earmarked for tribal communities.
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The Navajo Nation Resources and Development Committee will move forward with plans for a standalone energy office, a move intended to centralize authority over energy projects and provide a single point of contact for outside agencies.
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In 2011, Richard Tallbear Westerman (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) pivoted away from an 18-year career in interior fabrication to enter the solar industry. He spent two years working out of his garage without a paycheck, building partnerships with potential financiers, locating suitable projects and negotiating land purchases.
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Violet Sage Walker, chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, earned a spot on TIME magazine's prestigious TIME100 Climate list, which recognizes 100 highly influential leaders driving business climate action worldwide.
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Cody Two-Bears spent more than $1 million training Native workers for clean energy jobs. Then the jobs disappeared.
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The future of Native renewable energy might not be utility-scale. It might, instead, be 20 homes at a time.
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Tribal Energy Alternatives has awarded $3.6 million in grants to 26 tribes and tribal organizations through its Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund program, the nonprofit announced this week.
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A publicly traded company announced Tuesday that it has secured $51 million in financing from Lytton Rancheria of California, marking the first tribal investment in the Mojave Groundwater Bank, a water supply and groundwater storage project planned as the largest groundwater bank in the Southwest.
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Investors face mounting financial and reputational risks when they fail to properly engage with Indigenous communities on energy transition projects — particularly mining and renewable projects that overlap Indigenous territories, according to a new report released Monday.
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A coalition of labor unions, nonprofits, solar companies, and homeowners filed suit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency. The group alleges the agency unlawfully terminated $7 billion in federal grants intended to expand solar access in marginalized and low-income communities, including tribal nations.