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Twelve years after it was first proposed, not one mile of Nebraska Public Power District s R-Project, a controversial 345,000-volt transmission line that would stretch across 226 miles, has been built.
The R-Project transmission line was first proposed in 2012, meant to make our power grid stronger. Twelve years later, not a single mile of the line has been built, stopped by environmental groups, state senators, tribes and ranchers.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will close two of its exhibition halls that showcase “severely outdated” representations of Native Americans, the museum’s president, Sean Decatur, wrote today in an internal email to staff. The announcement of the exhibit closures on Saturday, Jan. 27 was in direct response to updates in a federal repatriation law that became effective earlier this month. The law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), now requires museums and institutions holding Native American human remains and sacred objects to consult with— and receive consent from— affected tribal nations, in order to exhibit their artifacts.