The Bureau of Land Management in California has taken a great step forward with its decision to protect a special part of the desert by denying an application for a large-scale solar project in the remote Silurian Valley.
For years there has been a growing demand on public lands in California and other parts of the west to support clean sources of energy like wind and solar power.
The poll, conducted in 11 western states, showed that voters support legislation that would help fund conservation projects by reinvesting a portion of rents and royalties from renewable development on public lands.
The BLM auctioned a total of 3,000 acres in Nevada’s Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone to three companies, marking the agency’s first successful auction of solar energy development on public lands. Potential solar
The one year anniversary of the unveiling of America’s historic Climate Action Plan is upon us. Measuring how far we have come in meeting the goals outlined in the plan and the work yet to be done is as important as the plan itself.
In Congressional testimony offered on April 10, The Wilderness Society laid out funding recommendations for the Interior Department and other agencies for the coming fiscal year.
