Tribes fighting nearby power plants

In this May 14, photo, the Reid-Gardner power station is seen just beyond homes on the Moapa Indian Reservation, in Moapa, Nev. Across the country, a disproportionate number of power plants operate near Indian tribal lands. Some tribes embrace the plants, which provide jobs and tax dollars to ...
MOAPA, Nev. (AP) — Beyond the ancestral hunting fields and the rows of small, sparse homes, the cemetery at the Moapa River Indian Reservation sprawls across a barren hill with the tombstones of tribal members who died young.
Their deaths haunt this small desert community outsid...
Published: 07/05/2012
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