Renewable Firms Say DOI Plan For California Desert Threatens Climate Goals

Solar and wind power companies are attacking the Interior Department's (DOI) final Phase 1 plan for building renewable power in the California desert in the coming decades, charging it deems far too much land off-limits for development, jeopardizing achievement of state and federal targets for clean power and greenhouse gas cuts. DOI and its Bureau of Land Management (BLM) “missed a golden opportunity to balance the preservation of parts of the California desert with clean, renewable energy development across some...