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from The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.
FARMINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an air permit for Desert Rock Power Plant on Thursday, the final day it was mandated to act on the long-delayed permit.
EPA agreed to act by Thursday after it was sued by the Dine Power Authority and Sithe Global Power earlier this year.
U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., informed The Daily Times of the decision after he received the news from EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on Thursday morning.
Opponents of the proposed 1,500-megawatt, coal-fired plant, which would be built near Burnham on the Navajo Nation, criticized the decision.
"This is a serious blow to the Navajo tribal members who provided comments to EPA. The U.S. EPA has failed us and undermined us", said Dailan Long, Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, one of the groups that opposed construction of Desert Rock. "Nothing is being done about the health issues we raised. The tribal elders are outraged that their comments were ignored."
Also outraged is Elouise Brown of Dooda Desert Rock.
"I hope and pray the people who made this decision never sleep again", she said. "How can people make this kind of decision that puts people at risk?"
Brown characterized the power plant as a "kind of torture to our people, Mother Earth and the environment.
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