It’s Solar Energy Vs. The Cows As Public Lands Battle Heats Up
A high tech range war for the 21st century: solar energy developers could crowd out cattle ranchers from public lands in western states.
A high tech range war for the 21st century: solar energy developers could crowd out cattle ranchers from public lands in western states.
Isn’t this exactly the opposite of what the EPA was formed to protect? Issues of poverty, environmental inequality, and social injustice are other pieces of the power and control that has the streets filled with passionate advocates for peace.
Water, water everywhere and hardly a drop is being protected by the Trump administration. In its latest act of abdication, the Environmental Protection Agency published its Navigable Waters Protection Rule in the Federal Register on April 21. The rule is scheduled to go into effect June 22, completing the elimination of the Obama administration’s Waters of the US Rule.
The USDA’s Natural Conservation Service has worked with private landowners and a host of other partners in restoring and conserving more than 2.6 million acres of U.S. wetlands since the Wetlands Reserve Program was created 20 years ago …