Navajo youth travel to San Francisco to protest coal plant

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Thirty Navajo youth have traveled from their reservation in Arizona to San Francisco to protest a federal decision that they say would allow a massive coal-fired power near their homes to bypass strict pollution-control regulations for the next several decades. Navajo environmental activists say in a lawsuit set for arguments Friday before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that federal officials set a double standard when they allowed for operators of a Navajo Generating Station to wait three decades to implement a pollution control plan for the aging plant. Other plants are expected to adhere to a speedier timeline. Sheldon Natoni (nah-TONE'-ee) and Sebale Tsosie (sah-BALE' SO'-see) are among the young activists in San Francisco. They say they felt compelled to attend the hearing because they believe smog from the plant is affecting the health of fellow Navajos.