Researchers said a federal agency should have held a mining company responsible for overuse of groundwater in the Navajo Nation's Black Mesa region.

Black Mesa United is a non profit organization that is made up of Black Mesa community members trying to plan a life after decades of coal mining.

Black Mesa United is a non profit organization that is made up of Black Mesa community members trying to plan a life after decades of coal mining.

People have mined coal in Arizona for at least 700 years, but today the only active mine in the state is the Kayenta Mine at the Black Mesa field on the Colorado Plateau in Northeastern Arizona ...

The Black Mesa Mine continues to operate under its prior permit — issued in 2000 — to this day.

BLACK MESA, Ariz.— In response to an appeal brought by a diverse coalition of tribal and environmental groups, this week the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew a controversial water permit for ...

More recently, the Black Mesa Mine, which mixes coal with water and pipes the slurry to the Mojave Power Plant in Laughlin, has been working without a permit since 1990.

The decline of coal, oil’s booms and busts, the Biden Administration’s incentives for renewable energy and ongoing environmental justice concerns on Diné lands all came up during the conference.