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The Sierra Club decries the attack on the US Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob: “We won’t stand down, and we won’t stand by. We will, instead, speak up.”
The three iconic 775-foot smokestacks of the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant in Arizona fall in a planned demolition.
Two endangered Florida panthers are killed by vehicles in the first week of 2021. Nineteen panthers were killed by cars in 2020.
Americans are buying so many SUVs and light trucks that, for the first time in five years, the fuel efficiency of new vehicles declined and emissions increased.
Native American land activist Carrie Dann dies in Nevada Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Carrie Dann, a Native American land rights activist, Nevada rancher and longtime leader of the Western Shoshone Nation, has died.
Dann and her older sister Mary Dann, who died in 2005, fought with the federal government for decades over ownership of their ancestral lands in central Nevada.
Born in Nevada’s Crescent Valley in 1932, Carrie Dann co-founded the Western Shoshone Defense Project in 1991.
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She died Jan. 1 at home of natural causes with family members near, said Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, a friend and lawyer in Elko who worked with Dann on numerous defense project cases. She was believed to be between 86 and 88, but didn’t have a birth certificate, Cavanaugh-Bill said.
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between the house and the senate. it s a really red map. this has been one of those weird the senate is divided up into three buckets of cycles. well, let s subtract six years. 18 down to 12. that was barack obama s re-election, they ended up winning two senate seats out of nowhere. north dakota was the big get there. 2006, a wave year. 2000, while bush wins, democrats pick up four senate seats. this same cycle, they keep picking up seats, carrie, and, you know, and now they re now they re at a point where there s no way they can keep picking up again in this cycle. there s a couple of unique things. not just that they re red states, but there are policy issues that will make a big difference. the biggest to me is tariffs. in montana, in wisconsin, in missouri, in all of these in almost all of these red states there is either an industry or an agricultural issue that tariffs could really hurt republican voters who would otherwise be inclined to like trump. now, all of the a