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Amargosa River
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Opinion: Desert Plan Balances Renewables and Conservation
Post date:The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving to a smarter, wide-scale planning that safeguards our most important lands.
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cbd
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Feds Release New Version of Desert Energy Plan
Post date:The newest version of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan is better, but it still needs work.
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rooftop solar
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No Need to Sacrifice California Wildlands for Solar, Study Finds
Post date:California's cities could generate enough solar energy to power the state several times over without building on intact wildlife habitat.
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Public Opposition Forces Major Changes for Desert Renewable Energy Plan
Post date:A plan that would manage renewable energy development on 22 million acres of the California desert will be done a piece at a time.
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Amargosa Conservancy
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Inyo County Planners Suggest Strict Limits to Big Solar
Post date:Inyo County's Planning Commission just threw a curveball that may prove a game-changer for desert solar energy.
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asthma
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The EPA Just Ripped California's Big Renewable Energy Plan
Post date:The EPA's feedback may cause the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan's authors even more work.
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Illegal Off-Roading Overran Mojave Desert on Holiday Weekend, BLM Says
Post date:About 30,000 off-road vehicles descended on the Mojave Desert in California over Thanksgiving weekend this year, and many of those off-road vehicles ended up out of bounds in places they shouldn't have gone, according to the BLM.
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drecp
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You Have More Time To Comment On That Desert Energy Plan
Post date:Those of you who are planning to comment on the gargantuan and nearly incomprehensible plan to regulate energy development on 22 million acres of the California Desert now have an extra six and a half weeks to do so.
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commentary
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California's Renewable Energy Plan Misses the Point on Renewable Energy
Post date:And, in fact, the plan, several years in the making, is already outdated.
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commentary
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California's Huge Renewable Energy Plan is Bad for Democracy
Post date:A draft plan to manage millions of acres in the California desert for renewable energy development is profoundly anti-democratic. Here's why.
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drecp
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Desert Energy Plan Would Devote 2 Million Acres To Renewables
Post date:A long-awaited master planning document in the works since 2008 that will guide renewable energy development in the California desert is out in draft form Tuesday, and residents of the West Mojave and some other parts of the desert will not be happy.
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usfws
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Government Shutdown Will Likely Delay Renewable Energy Projects
Post date:A number of California renewable energy projects that had been undergoing environmental review by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may well be delayed, as staff are furloughed and schedules slip.
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san diego county
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How the L.A. Times Got It Wrong on Desert Wind Energy
Post date:The paper published an editorial calling for state and federal agencies to give wind energy a far bigger slice of the pie when portioning out the California desert. Here's why they got it badly wrong.
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wind
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Killing a Condor is Okay at Wind Project, Feds Say in About-Face Move
Post date:In a reversal that has outraged environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will not penalize a Southern California wind operator if its turbines kill or injure one California condor.
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climate change
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Governor's Address Long on Climate, Short on Energy
Post date:Those looking in Jerry Brown's State of The State address for hints about new state energy policies likely came away disappointed.
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drecp
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Desert Energy Plan Ignores Major EPA Renewables Tool
Post date:Authors of a massive plan to regulate renewable energy in the California Desert seem to ignore the fact that the EPA has already put them out of date.
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SoCal Focus
Year in Review: California Continues to Clamp Down on the Desert
Post date:2012 was a year of change for the California Desert, as human society elsewhere increasingly closed its grip on the desert as a place to sacrifice for our comfort. But in a couple of ways, the desert struck back.
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inyo county
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Scientists Slam California's Desert Renewable Energy Process
Post date:The drafters of a plan to regulate renewable energy development on millions of acres of the California desert got scientific feedback on the plan this week -- and it had to have stung.
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imperial county
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Solar Plan Would Open Almost a Million Acres to Development in California
Post date:Though the PEIS directs developers to Solar Energy Zones, three quarters of a million acres outside the zones remains available in California.
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la county
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Public Comment Ends Aug. 8 for Massive Desert Renewable Energy Plan
Post date:California's desert renewable energy team gives you the chance to comment on hundreds of pages of documents. You've got five days.