Desert Rock Energy Facility, a 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant on Navajo land in San Juan County, New Mexico, would have become the nation’s sixth largest emitter of carbon dioxide. The facility would dump another 12.7 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year and raise ozone levels in an area that is already…

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