The US House has failed to override Trump’s veto of a bill that would have restored territory to the Miccosukee Tribe.
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Trump Blocks Bill to Return Land to Florida Tribe That Fought Alligator Alcatraz Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Thursday, Republicans in the House failed to override President Donald Trump’s first two vetoes in office: a pipeline project that would bring safe drinking water to rural Colorado, and another that would return land to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians in Florida. Their inability […]
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A new study found that vilifying protestors in public and through the media has been key to state repression tactics.
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Climate Protesters Face Greater Risk of Crackdown Amid Rising Authoritarianism Read Post »
The suit targets a federal permit for Enbridge’s Line 5, which the tribe says puts treaty-protected resources at risk.
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This Ojibwe Band Is Suing to Stop a Pipeline From Polluting Their Wetland Home Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain for gravity-based energy storage, and the […]
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Trump’s Energy Secretary Wants to Bigfoot Tribes’ Stewardship of Their Land Read Post »
A judge ordered the notorious ICE jail to close pending environmental review. Florida officials have already appealed.
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Miccosukee Tribe Won a Battle Against Alligator Alcatraz, But the War Isn’t Over Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cody Two Bear, who is Standing Rock Sioux, served on his tribal council during the Dakota Access pipeline protests in 2017. Growing up in a community powered by coal, the experience was transformative. “I’ve seen the energy extraction that has placed […]
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Tribal Nations Scramble to Save Clean Energy Projects Read Post »
The tribe will keep fighting to “protect the land and save the land that saved us,” said the tribal council secretary.
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FL Miccosukee Tribe Joins Environmental Groups Suing Over “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park. In a motion to join a lawsuit, […]
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