What does it do?

My organization is the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, and we offer, at, at no cost to tribes, technical assistance, financial assistance, access to capital.

We offer workforce, um, and, uh, professional training and development, and we convene events.

We run 100% on philanthropy.

Mm-hmm.

So a recent one, the BIA issued a memo that says that the secretary of the BIA has to review, personally, every single clean energy application.

That's ridiculous [laughs].

And, and it's designed to gunk up the works and make clean energy projects slower to, to come to fruition.

What does it do?

My organization is the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, and we offer, uh, at no cost to tribes, technical assistance, financial assistance, access to capital.

We offer workforce, um, and, uh, professional training and development, and we convene events.

We run 100% on philanthropy.

Mm-hmm.

So a recent one, the BIA issued a memo that says that the secretary of the BIA has to review, personally, every single clean energy application.

That's ridiculous, [laughs] and it's designed to gunk up the works and make clean energy projects slower to, to come to fruition.

So policies hinder the exercise of sovereign control.