When Ken Salazar came into office as Interior secretary, no large-scale solar projects had been approved and the offshore Cape Wind project near the Massachusetts coast had been stalled for years.
PHOENIX--The U.S. Interior Department on Friday designated 192,100 acres of Arizona public land as having potential for large-scale wind and solar energy development.
A spokeswoman representing of a coalition of environmental groups suing the US Bureau of Land Management over its approval last year of a project that calls for drilling nearly 1,300 natural gas wells in east-central Utah hopes the groups can work out its differences with BLM in an amicable mann
In 2012, proposed lease acreage in Colorado drew formal challenges, called protests, at a far greater rate than that of three neighboring states, according to federal Bureau of Land Management data.