The most prominent Navajo opposed to the monument, Benally opened and closed Lee's gathering in the Capitol's elegant Gold Room. She called on environmental groups to quit "romanticizing and using Native Americans" for their political ends and decried the monument…
"First, they take our property rights. Now, they are taking away our local control and voice in BLM planning processes. The decisions will be made in Washington, D.C.; not by our local BLM offices that really live in and know…
One ban fracking activist is affiliated with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), a group that has boasted that bankrupting a community as a result of a fracking ban “might be exactly what is needed.” With the campaign to ban fracking in Colorado failing…