Indian Country Today Media Network
Nearly four months after last summer’s historic agreement to reduce emissions from the Navajo Generating Station, the plant continues to belch pollutants and compromise health, a group of local community leaders and public health experts said on behalf of the National Parks Conservation Association.
“For decades this plant has emitted massive amounts of preventable pollution into the skies above our national parks like the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest and Mesa Verde, as well as into the lungs of hundreds of thousands of local residents and visitors to these magnificent places,” said the Arizona Program Manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, Kevin Dahl, in a statement on November 11. “The pollution from this plant must be substantially reduced as soon as possible, for the sake of our lungs and our parks.”
The group released its statement ahead of this week’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on a few variations of proposals that would address the problem. The public hearings and open houses are being held around Arizona, including at the Hopi Day School, on November 13, 14 and 15.
