A recent article at Outside tells us the story of a really beef-headed lawsuit the State of Utah recently filed against the federal government. In the lawsuit, the state claims that the feds (specifically the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM—not to be confused with the other BLM) are unlawfully … [continued]
WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration yesterday announced a series of historic milestones and actions to promote responsible clean energy development on public lands and help achieve President Biden’s goal of creating a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland yesterday announced that the Department has … [continued]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published final rules to govern leasing and rental rates for renewable energy projects on public lands. The final rules closely follow recommendations from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) to streamline clean energy development on federal lands. The new rules will: Reduce rents and … [continued]
On the surface, doing right by the environment may sound like a simple thing. Do things that are good for the environment, and don’t do things that are bad for it, right? Often, that’s the choice we’re faced with, and we have to balance it with other things, like cost … [continued]
If the huge Wyoming wind farm is completed, it will be the largest in the US. The company developing it is the Power Company of Wyoming LLC. The company’s Director of Communications is Kara Choquette; she answered some questions about the wind power project for CleanTechnica.
A federal judge ruled this week that the government did not adequately assess the impact of greenhouse gases from oil and gas leases on public lands and blocked any drilling activities temporarily.
The decade-old 500 MW Palen Solar Project has finally won decisive federal approval to go ahead as an estimated $1 billion photovoltaic project in the California desert after years of controversy and varied ownership. The November 1 approval by the US Bureau of Land Management also side-steps years of regulatory consideration of the project by the California Energy Commission, when the plant was still being proposed as a solar thermal project.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver earlier this month ruled that the country’s Bureau of Land Management must reassess its analysis of the climate impacts of expanding two huge coal mines in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, finding that the existing analysis which led to approval for expansion to be “glaringly insufficient.”
The United States Bureau of Land Management has published a plan which renewable energy and labor groups have claimed will “effectively foreclose” the development of renewable energy resources on millions of acres of federally managed land in Southern California. According to the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the Bureau of … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Central. By Bobby Magill More wind turbines and solar power plants could be coming to vast tracts of public lands in the West if the Obama administration finalizes a new rule this fall aiming to streamline how federal lands can be developed for renewable energy. But … [continued]
