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The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation completed a $370,000 solar installation at the tribe’s Tutuilla Food Sovereignty Center on Feb. 4, adding on-site renewable energy capacity and battery storage at a high-demand food distribution facility.
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Cherokee Nation Businesses has expanded into utility infrastructure through a minority investment in Front Line Power Construction, marking the tribally owned company’s first direct entry into the sector.
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The Tule River Economic Development Corp. is deploying a $14.7 million Environmental Protection Agency grant to build a biochar facility in California’s Central Valley, positioning the tribe to generate renewable electricity and tap into carbon credit markets.
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The California Natural Resources Agency has opened a competitive $9.2 million funding round for tribal land acquisition and climate resilience projects — part of California’s push to return ancestral lands and finance tribally led conservation.
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The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon has been awarded $1 million from the Oregon Department of Energy to install solar and battery energy storage systems at tribal housing and community facilities on the reservation.
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Renewable energy in Indian Country faces growing uncertainty as federal clean energy funding slows or stalls. For Elizabeth Perez, a U.S. Navy veteran turned clean energy entrepreneur, uncertainty is familiar terrain.
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Tribal nations are bracing for a wave of relicensing as nearly 40% of existing federally regulated hydropower projects come up for renewal over the next decade — a reset that could determine how rivers, fisheries and treaty-protected rights are managed for decades.
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A nonprofit group in Nuiqsut has sued to block the Interior Department from canceling a conservation right‑of‑way created to protect the Teshekpuk Caribou Herd during development of the Willow oil project.
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Timothy Nuvangyaoma, the outgoing chairman of the Hopi Tribe, has been appointed vice president of tribal engagement at the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, the organization said.
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The Prairie Island Indian Community set its net zero carbon emissions goal in 2021, becoming one of the first tribal nations in the country to commit to eliminating or offsetting all the carbon the community produces.