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More than 200 Navajo and Hopi employees of Navajo Generating Station, along with family members, gather outside the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix Feb. 6 to show their support to keep the power plant open. Navajo Generating Station, located in Page, Arizona, is a source of revenue and employment for both tribes.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Hopis and Navajos who work at a coal mine near the Arizona-Utah border said Feb. 6 their family lives and earning power will suffer greatly if the power plant fed by the mine is shuttered as planned.

By By Felicia Fonseca and Anita Snow, Associated Press February 9, 2018