Bureau of Land Management Finalizes Western Solar Plan

Amid protests, BLM could finalize solar plan this month

... BLM said. The Western Lands Project, Basin and Range Watch, and Solar Done Right publicized their protest late last month, arguing the agency ...

Biden plan will earmark millions of acres of public land for solar ...

The proposed plan, called the updated Western Solar Plan, covers Bureau of Land Management land from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains.

Finalized federal plan outlines future of Nevada, Western solar ...

Nearly one-fifth of Nevada's public lands could open up to utility-scale solar development under the Bureau of Land Management's final ...

BLM Seeking Input for Proposed Changes to Solar Plan

On December 20, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was seeking public comment on its proposed changes to a 2012 Western Solar ...

Nobody loves Biden's Western Solar Plan. But it's what we've got

... finalized Western Solar Plan ... Land Management only approved Gemini after the bureau's local staff contemplated rejecting the project.

Organizations Call on Biden Administration to Responsibly Site ...

"Updating the Western Solar Plan provides an opportunity for the BLM to make public lands part of the climate solution by ramping up solar ...

BLM finalizes controversial public lands rule - NM Political Report

... West, working closely ... The agency gives the example of lands that are available for solar development under a resource management plan.

Biden administration finalizes solar lands plan, touts permitting ...

US President Joe Biden's administration said on Thursday it had finalized a plan to expand solar energy on federal lands in 11 western states.

BLM's proposed Western Solar Plan leaves room for wildlife

The plan is expected to be finalized by the end of this year. BLM energy Outdoors Wyoming News Service Audio Stories and Podcasts. You may ...

Organizations call on Biden administration to responsibly site solar ...

... administration's draft plan to update the Western Solar Plan. A ... “This plan has the potential to make solar energy development on public lands ...

The technical potential for clean energy deployment on BLM and ...

In addition, BLM should finalize an ambitious updated Western Solar Plan ... solar energy development on public lands. Infrastructure, News ...

Bureau of Land Management Finalizes Plan to Increase Livestock ...

For Immediate Release – September 29, 2020. Media Contacts: Cyndi Tuell, [email protected], (520) 272-2454, Western Watersheds Project.

Protecting Outdoor Recreation and Advancing Renewable Energy

For more than ten years, the BLM has used the 2012 Western Solar Plan to determine where it is appropriate to develop industrial-scale solar ...

BLM To Accelerate Solar Energy Development on Public Lands in ...

The Solar Plan covered six western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah—and provided a comprehensive solar energy ...

How the Biden admin is trying to boost renewables on public land

That conflict will be evident in the coming months as the BLM finalizes a big, new plan for solar power on federal land in Western states. “The ...

Feds plan to open 32M acres of public land for solar development ...

... lands to utility-scale solar development. The proposal released by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, known as the Western Solar Plan ...

BLM plan allocates nearly 600,000 acres for solar project ...

The BLM is working to update and expand a 2012 Western Solar Plan to ... finalize its decision and amendments to local resource management ...

BLM issues new guidelines to streamline Western solar development

One of the keys in advancing the Obama administration's Western Solar Plan ... finalized this spring. content image Access now➔ Image ...

Federal Government Finalizes Programmatic Environmental Impact ...

... land available for solar energy development in the western ... Tags: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Energy, solar, Utilities.

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

The Biden administration has outlined a plan to streamline the development of solar projects on 22 million acres of land managed by the federal government.