In 2007, the Navajo Nation, the largest Indigenous tribe in the United States, advanced a highly contentious 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant project. If built, the Desert Rock generating station would have been the cleanest and most scientifically advanced coal-fired power plant in the region. With corporate backing, a favorable tribal council, and a relaxed environmental review, this energy infrastructure at one point seemed inevitable. After a year of grassroots opposition and regulatory delays, however, the project eventually collapsed. Today it is a distant memory. Dana E. Powell’s book Landscapes of Power chronicles the life and death of this failed energy project. Powell, an anthropologist, focuses on the political, social, and cultural production of Navajo energy landscapes to understand the complicated politics around coal and development for the tribe.