Water is Life Nevada Film Screening is Coming
The 2017 Water Tour provided an opportunity for individuals to connect from urban Nevada to rural Nevada, and vice-versa. During the Tour, we filmed the journey and interviewed folks along …
Anaconda Mine Tour Reflection
I’ve spent most of my life in Las Vegas, Nevada where I was born and raised. Like most families in Vegas, mine chose to go out-of-state for our weekend vacationing …
Environmental Justice Collaboration @ UNR and TMCC
During the week of Nov. 6th, PLAN’s Environmental Justice (EJ) team both lead a film screening and were invited to present on mining accountability. The film screening was at …
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A Coal-hearted Repeal
By PLANistas Kyra Rehard and Gianni Giuliano | Compete version published on Medium.com. Scott Pruitt, the current Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has withdrawn Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan (CPP) from federal legislation. The CPP …
Newmont Proposes Greater Phoenix Mine Expansion in Nevada
Summary of Public Comment Requirements under NEPA On September 26, 2017, a public comment hearing was held in Battle Mountain, NV for a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) of …
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#TaxTreachery Speak Out
Statement of Bob Fulkerson, PLAN State Director October 6, 2017 RENO – Nevada’s obscene economic inequality, with disproportionate harm to women and people of color here, prove why the …
Mined Your Damned Business
Senator Dean Heller and Representative Mark Amodei must stop meddling in the sovereignty of Guatemalan communities on behalf of international mining conglomerates and focus on the issues concerning Nevadans. Recently …
We’re Hiring – Intersectional Environmental Justice Mining Accountability Fellow
Position: Intersectional Environmental Justice/Mining Accountability Fellow Overview of PLAN PLAN is a multi-issue, multi-constituency coalition formed in 1994 to build collective strategic action among partners. PLAN uses research, public …
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Video Vignette – Water is Life
Because the Great Basin is a desert, water is life. Nevada is the most arid state in the nation. Water management, for better or worse, is part of the …
2017 Great Basin Water Tour Recap
This is the first of several environmental justice blog posts in a series dedicated to the 2017 Great Basin Water Tour and related water issues impacting all of us. In …