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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from NTAA!

NTAA will be closed December 24^th until January 3 to allow us all time to take advantage of the holiday season to time to spend time with loved ones and enjoy the winter season. The NTAA Weekly Update will return on on January 5^th!

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The Guardian – Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights

A file picture from 2010 shows the explosion at the mobile offshore oil drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, located in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Us Coast Guard/HANDOUT HANDOUT/EPA

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Native News Online – Remembering Standing Rock Five Years Later: Importance of Indigenous Journalism

Minutes after the announcement that the Obama administration would not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline, the crowd celebrated at Standing Rock. (Photo/Levi Rickert for Native News Online)

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CNN – An Indigenous tribe in Texas is getting its sacred burial ground back

For decades, development has been encroaching on the Lipan Apache cemetery in Presidio, Texas. As of this week, the burial ground is back in the hands of the tribe.

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Save the Date for the Upcoming 2022 National Tribal Forum on Air Quality!

For more information and to see previous NTFAQ Conference’s, please visit our website! And be sure to take the pre-registration survey here! Thank you.

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Indian Country Today – Navajo Nation President signs ban on indoor smoking

Representatives sign the The “Niłch’ Éí Bee Ííná – Air is Life Act of 2021” into law on Saturday, November 6, 2021. (Courtesy of Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President)

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Indian Country Today – Leaders vow to protect forests, plug methane leaks

Tuntiak Katan, Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), Global Alliance of Territorial Communites (GATC) speaking at the Forest event at the SEC, Glasgow. 02/11/2021. Photograph: Karwai Tang/ UK Government

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E&E News – Release of EPA methane rules expected this week

A gas flare is seen at a natural gas processing facility near Williston, N.D. EPA’s rules for oil and gas methane will be central to the Biden administration’s message at COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, which has been dubbed “the methane COP.” AP Photo/Matthew Brown

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Grist – Report: Biden has the power to prevent 1.6 billion metric tons of emissions annually

Protesters want Biden to stop fossil fuel infrastructure — and a new analysis shows just how much of a difference that would make. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

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ABC News – Biden signs orders restoring boundaries of Bears Ears, other monuments shrunk by Trump

Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images. President Joe Biden, with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (4th R) signs three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Oct. 8, 2021.