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Chairman Bishop is outraged at the reports that the EPA is asking tribal members to sacrifice their rights after EPA’s ineptitude has potentially threatened their health and livelihoods,” spokeswoman Julia Bell Slingsby said. “People are suffering because of EPA negligence, and yet the federal government’s response is not to help, but to engage in grasping for legal cover before the full extent of damage is known to Navajo farmers.”
She said the EPA would come down hard on any private party that tries the same tactics and demanded to know why the Interior Department, which has oversight of Indian affairs, hasn’t come to the aid of the tribes.
Chairman Bishop is outraged at the reports that the EPA is asking tribal members to sacrifice their rights after EPA’s ineptitude has potentially threatened their health and livelihoods,” spokeswoman Julia Bell Slingsby said. “People are suffering because of EPA negligence, and yet the federal government’s response is not to help, but to engage in grasping for legal cover before the full extent of damage is known to Navajo farmers.”
She said the EPA would come down hard on any private party that tries the same tactics and demanded to know why the Interior Department, which has oversight of Indian affairs, hasn’t come to the aid of the tribes.
