A Little Background
Environmental justice is one of PLAN’s core founding principles. Our campaigns seek to enact concrete local and state policy changes that put People and Planet First.
Fighting the Good Fight
The Silver State is in the bull’s eye of some of the most unconscionable and environmentally destructive projects in the world. Nevadan’s are still paying with their lives from above-ground nuclear weapons explosions in the 50s and 60s. We’re proud that Nevadans rose up in the early 1980s to defeat the military’s proposal to turn five million acres of our fragile Great Basin into an MX missile base. And we’re still winning our 30-year fight against the nuclear industry’s efforts to dump nuclear waste here. That fight, like others, requires that we continue to train and bring up new leaders who will be vigilant in the decades to come.
Las Vegas, SNWA Water Grab
PLAN opposed the Las Vegas Water Grab, which was a victory that was won in 2020. The pipeline would have created a Owens Valley wasteland across a wide swath of the state, destroying the economy of rural Nevada and ranching as a way of life. Learn more about the victory and defeating the water grab through the Great Basin Water Network.
Hardrock Mining
Many Nevadans are aware of the painful and bitter past and present history related to mining and the Western Shoshone people. Elder Carrie Dann and her family live next to Barrick’s Cortez Hills mine, one of the largest gold discoveries in North America. Barrick is currently mining beneath the white cliffs of Mt. Tenabo, a sacred place in the creation beliefs of the Western Shoshone. PLAN stands with the Western Shoshone in their efforts to reclaim their land and cultural resources.