I believe that the Navajo’s are conservatives - i drove by that power house in 1984 - i could see the smoke cloud for miles - i remember thinking that “wow that’s on the res”
I learned many years later that this was a good deal for the tribe - l think all it needed was some help getting the pollution control (MACT) technology installed - but the reality is that the “Lets Go Brandon Crowd” does not want to help conservatives of any color.
Lets go Brandon crowd means Biden supporters
When I lived there in 1973-1977, the plants were belching smoke all the time. The San Juan plant cleaned up by putting scrubbers or electrostatic precipitators on their exhaust in the 1980s, to remove fly ash.
The Waterflow plants on the Rez still belched smoke.
Last time I was through there(2015) I followed a light stream of redish exhaust from Farmington clear to the Waterflow plants.
Anyone remember the attempt by the electric industry, around 1968-1972 to prevent scrubbers from being installed? Before those dates all stacks belched smoke.
In various magazines of those years TIME, LIFE, POST, LOOK magazines were advertisements showing some sort of disaster and some cartoon guy saying,...”Have you hear a good joke about scrubbers?” in an attempt to discredit scrubbers.