Diné CARE

=== Just Transition ===

=== Just Transition ===

At the end of 2025, Diné CARE released a report titled Just Transition{{Cite web |title=Just Transition |url=https://www.dine-care.org/copy-of-coal-retirement-1 |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=Dine-care |language=en}}. Just Transition is described as a way for the [[Navajo Nation]] to address economic stability for future generations while maintaining and honoring a traditional Diné lifestyle. Just Transition entails shifting economic dependency from coal mining to more sustainable and cleaner sources of energy. The report details that the cornerstone of Just Transition includes distributive justice, procedural justice, and restorative justice. Dine CARE's report emphasizes the importance of economic diversity due to the potential closure of the [[Four Corners Generating Station|Four Corners]] [[Four Corners Generating Station|Generating Station]] in 2031{{Cite web |last=Quintero|first=Donovan|date=2025-01-16|title=From coal to clean energy, Four Corners Power Plant faces 2031 shuttering|url=https://navajotimes.com/reznews/from-coal-to-clean-energy-four-corners-power-plant-faces-2031-shuttering/|access-date=2026-04-17|website=Navajo Times|language=en-US}}. With the 2019 closure of the [[Navajo Generating Station|Navajo Generation Station]] and subsequent forty-million-dollar loss in revenue, Dine CARE advocates for economic diversification within the [[Navajo Nation|Navajo Nation.]]

At the end of 2025, Diné CARE released a report titled Just Transition{{Cite web |title=Just Transition |url=https://www.dine-care.org/copy-of-coal-retirement-1 |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=Dine-care |language=en}}. Just Transition is described as a way for the [[Navajo Nation]] to address economic stability for future generations while maintaining and honoring a traditional Diné Hózhǫ́ and K’é. Hózhǫ́ is a sacred belief system the teaches empowerment, morality, and goodness. However, the depth and complexities of Hózhǫ́ are such that oversimplifications of the teachings cannot fully capture the meaning. {{Cite journal |last=Kahn-John Diné|first=Michelle|last2=Koithan|first2=Mary|date=2015-05|title=Living in health, harmony, and beauty: the diné (navajo) hózhó wellness philosophy|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4424938/|journal=Global Advances in Health and Medicine|volume=4|issue=3|pages=24–30|doi=10.7453/gahmj.2015.044|issn=2164-957X|pmc=4424938|pmid=25984415}}{{Cite journal |last=Werito|first=Vincent|last2=Belone|first2=Lorenda|date=2021-06|title=Research From a Diné-Centered Perspective and the Development of a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12068225/|journal=Health Education & Behavior: The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education|volume=48|issue=3|pages=361–370|doi=10.1177/10901981211011926|issn=1552-6127|pmc=12068225|pmid=34080481}} Just Transition entails shifting economic dependency from coal mining to more sustainable and cleaner sources of energy. The report details that the cornerstone of Just Transition includes distributive justice, procedural justice, and restorative justice. Dine CARE's report emphasizes the importance of economic diversity due to the potential closure of the [[Four Corners Generating Station|Four Corners]] [[Four Corners Generating Station|Generating Station]] in 2031{{Cite web |last=Quintero|first=Donovan|date=2025-01-16|title=From coal to clean energy, Four Corners Power Plant faces 2031 shuttering|url=https://navajotimes.com/reznews/from-coal-to-clean-energy-four-corners-power-plant-faces-2031-shuttering/|access-date=2026-04-17|website=Navajo Times|language=en-US}}. With the 2019 closure of the [[Navajo Generating Station|Navajo Generation Station]] and subsequent forty-million-dollar loss in revenue, Dine CARE advocates for economic diversification within the [[Navajo Nation|Navajo Nation.]]

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