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Will a New BLM Plan Turn the Silver State into the Solar State?
The U.S. is preparing for a gargantuan spike in the amount of energy it harnesses from the sun, and vastly changing the desert landscape of the Silver State’s public lands is a major component of that ...
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BLM in Roseburg invites public to volunteer on National Public Lands Day
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites the public to a volunteer family-friendly day of restoration work at the Millpond ...
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Badlands Conservation Alliance seeks to defend public land rule that North Dakota AG office opposes
A North Dakota conservation group is seeking to join a lawsuit to defend a new federal rule that changes how over 245 million acres of federal lands are managed.
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Plan would make 1 million acres of federal land in Oregon available for solar energy projects
About 3% of Oregon’s electricity has come from solar in recent years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration ...
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Green groups petition federal court to help BLM defend lands rule
Two coalitions are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed against the public lands rule by North Dakota, Idaho and Montana.
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Enviro groups to intervene in Montana’s lawsuit against BLM rule
A coalition of environmental groups have asked to intervene in a lawsuit brought by three western states to stop the Bureau ...
‘They are blanketing everything’: Solar plan a threat to Nye County, officials say
The federal government’s Western Solar Plan places Nevada — and Nye County — at the center of the country’s clean energy ...