"Energy is the biggest business in the world; there just isn't any other industry that begins to compare." - Lee Raymond, Chairman of the Board and CEO of ExxonMobil

Native America suffers from disproportionate extraction of non-renewable resources on tribal lands and the resulting disastrous toxic and environmental effects. For decades, uranium mining has laid to waste vast areas of land and aquifers in the Northwest and Southwest. There are over 1,100 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Reservation, increasing the contamination of an arid region. Tribal lands are also targets for coal development, hosting four of the ten largest coal strip mines in the U.S. Proposed huge coal methane developments would contaminate the groundwater of enormous regions including the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Over the years, tribes have been inundated by major dam projects ranging from the Columbia River in the Northwest to the Great Plains and on into James Bay in the North. Native villages and tribes are also deeply affected by oil development proposals for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Gwich'in) and massive nuclear waste dump proposals at Yucca Mountain (Western Shoshone) in Nevada. Honor the Earth has worked for over a decade with these front-line groups to oppose further destruction of their land and way of life.

The federal energy bill threatens our communities and local environments nationwide. Honor the Earth supports renewable energy, conservation and democratizing power. This is the key that is the heart of not only survival for our communities but is central to all of our survival. We support putting the power back into the hands of the people.