Program that provides coal to Navajos for heating resumes

Farmington, N.M. • A program that provides free coal to Navajos to heat their homes is starting up later this month.Many Navajos still use coal as a heating source, but accessing it became harder after a coal-fired power plant and its supply mine in northeastern Arizona shut down last year.The only coal mine still operating on the reservation is the Navajo Mine in northwestern New Mexico. Its owner, the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, expanded its coal resource program to help fill the