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  • Navajo enterprise sues over proposed power plant

    By Felicia Fonseca
    Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP)

    A Navajo Nation enterprise has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s lack of action on an air permit application for a proposed coal-fired power plant.

    The Navajo Nation’s Dine Power Authority and Houston-based Sithe Global Power have partnered to build the $3 billion, 1,500-megawatt Desert Rock plant.

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