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Builders Seek New Delay For Giant Solar Project
Post date:A beleaguered Spanish solar firm just asked for a year-long extension on a deadline for breaking ground on a controversial solar project in Riverside County
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California Set to Approve Controversial Solar Plant
Post date:The California Energy Commission gave tentative approval Friday evening to a reconfigured solar power plant in Riverside County that opponents say potentially poses a serious risk to migrating birds.
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Feds Asked to Rethink Energy Project Near Joshua Tree National Park
Post date:A desert protection group said in a formal legal request filed Monday that the project violates several federal laws and should be reconsidered.
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Major Solar Energy Project in Riverside County Could Be Doomed
Post date:The California Energy Commission is likely to deny approval to the Palen Solar Electric Generating System in Riverside County on the grounds that it may pose an unacceptable risk to birds and other wildlife.
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2 Reported Dead in Plane Crash at Riverside County Solar Plant
Post date:A small fixed-wing aircraft apparently crashed early Monday afternoon in the Riverside County desert west of Blythe, and police say that the plane was likely occupied by employees of the company building the Desert Sunlight Solar facility near Joshua T...
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CA Signs Off On Controversial Project Next to Joshua Tree Nat'l Park
Post date:A giant energy project that would turn an abandoned open pit mine near Joshua Tree National Park into two hydroelectric storage reservoirs got a thumbs-up from the state's main water quality agency this week.
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Drones for Good: Researcher to Study Foxes From the Air
Post date:A wildlife biologist grad student at Duke University wants to remedy our lack of knowledge about desert kit foxes, and she's using some remarkably new technology to do so -- both in the field and on the Internet.
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Proposed Trash Dump Next to Joshua Tree National Park Canceled
Post date:In a bit of long-awaited good news for Joshua Tree National Park and its wild residents, the agency responsible for disposing of L.A. County's trash has abandoned the idea of using the closed Eagle Mountain Mine as a landfill.
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Desert Solar May Pose Threat to Desert Biofuels
Post date:A California biofuel farmer facing serious crop losses points a finger at a desert solar developer.
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SoCal Wanderer
Spring Bloom Now Showing at Desert Lily Sanctuary
Post date:2012 has been a lousy bloom year through most of the California Desert. But if you get out to the Desert Lily Sanctuary in the next week or two, you'll find a little patch of color to match some of the best bloom years ever.
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SoCal Focus
Desert Solar Power Projects Draw Protests
Post date:When it comes to solar power, a symbol of renewable energy, environmentalists are not all on the same side of the fence. Case in point: last weekend in the Chuckwalla Valley on the eastern end of Joshua Tree National Park where about 45 people gathered...