The Little Big Horn College Health and Wellness Center in Crow Agency, Montana. Photo from SIPA
Freshman Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) will chair a field hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee tomorrow. Representatives of the Crow Tribe, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the Navajo Nation will testify about coal development in Indian Country. The committee will also examine the expired Indian Coal Production Tax Credit and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations that affect emissions from coal production. Critics of coal development in Indian Country have not been invited to testify. No one from the Obama administration is on the witness list either although Montana, who will be represented by Attorney General Tim Fox, is opposing the new EPA regulations. The hearing takes place at 10:30am at the Little Big Horn College Health and Wellness Center on the Crow Reservation. The witness list follows:
The Honorable Darrin Old CoyoteCommittee Notice:
Chairman
Crow Tribe of Montana
Crow Agency, Montana The Honorable Tim Fox
Attorney General of Montana
Montana Department of Justice
Helena, Montana The Honorable Lorenzo Bates
Speaker
Navajo Nation Council
Window Rock, Arizona Jason Small
Journeyman Boilermaker
Labor Advocate
Member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe Eric Henson
Research Fellow
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Boston, Massachusetts
Oversight Field Hearing on "Empowering Indian Country: Coal, Jobs, and Self-Determination" (April 8, 2015)
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