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Land & Environment
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Navajo Nation becomes first tribe eligible to run Clean Water Act discharge permits, as court upholds Oklahoma’s ‘Midnight Rider’
EPA has approved the Navajo Nation as the first tribe eligible to apply to run Clean Water Act discharge-permit and sewage-sludge programs. Days earlier,…
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New law hands the Crow Tribe control of its long-stalled reservation water system
Signed Oct. 15, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act turns a 2010 settlement’s federally designed water system into a tribal fund for…
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Cold Lake First Nations takes Ottawa to court over national-interest designation for Pacific Link oil pipeline
The Denesuline nation, whose territory sits in the oilsands region, says Canada designated the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline without meaningful consultation and is asking the Federal…
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Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres near Katahdin in first phase of 30,000-acre land return
The transfer around Wáhsehtəkʷ, the East Branch of the Penobscot River, restores the nation’s stewardship of the land for the first time in more…