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Shuttered Arizona Coal Mine Leaves Hopi, Navajo Tribes Without Vital Energy Resource, Financial Shares

Headlines in recent years have pitted Native Americans against the production of domestic energy infrastructure such as oil and gas pipelines that they claim harms their lands. But for the Hopi and Navajo tribes in northeastern Arizona, the shuttering of a strip coal mine and power plant has left tribe members without a source of heat in the winter as well as year-round revenue.

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2011, file photo, smoke rises from the stacks of the main plant fa

Report: China Leads the World in Future Coal Power Projects

China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is ready to massively boost its coal-powered energy supply with the total of future projects now standing at 226.2 gigawatts (GW). That is more than twice the amount of fresh capacity planned for India, according to data published Thursday by environmental groups.

The Associated Press

Pollak: Joe Biden’s Fifty Years of Flip-Flops

In a half-century in Washington — spanning 36 years in the Senate and eight in the Obama administration — Joe Biden has flip-flopped on most major issues. On other issues, his former positions are no longer viable within the Democratic Party.

Joe Biden (Alex Wong / Getty)

Foundation of Rig for Leviathan Gas Field Arrives in Israel

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Delek Drilling and its U.S. partner, Noble Energy, said Sunday the foundation of their rig for the Leviathan gas field has arrived, in the first stage of an ambitious project they say will wean Israel off coal and revolutionize its economy by turning it into an energy exporter.

© AFP/File | Israel hopes its gas reserves will enable it to forge strategic ties within