Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy

Peabody Energy mined coal at the Black Mesa plateau in the southwestern United States from the 1960s until 2019. The plateau overlaps the Navajo and Hopi reservations.

Controversy arose from an unusually generous mineral lease agreement between the Tribes and Peabody Energy and the company's depletion of the Navajo aquifer, which threatened Navajo water rights.

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