New Mexico: Suit Filed Against Expansion Of Navajo Coal Mine Polluting Four Corners Region


New Mexico: Suit Filed Against Expansion Of Navajo Coal Mine Polluting Four Corners Region   Federal Approval Ignores Human Health and Environmental Impacts   After decades of coal pollution from the 2040-megawatt Four Corners Power Plant and BHP Billiton’s 13,000-acre Navajo Coal Mine that supplies it, Navajo and conservation groups filed suit against the federal government late Tuesday for improperly rubber-stamping a proposal to expand strip-mining without full consideration of...

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