The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.

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By Miacel Spotted ElkDec 10, 2025, 4:45 am184 ptsTrendingTop
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 company was interested in building pumped-storage projects that…

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