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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 397575" data-attributes="member: 605">You talk like a Russian peasant.<h3>BLM Proposes 22 Million Acres of Public Lands for Solar Energy</h3><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/cristenhj" target="_blank">https://www.ecowatch.com/u/cristenhj</a>By: <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/cristenhj" target="_blank">Cristen Hemingway Jaynes</a>Published: January 23, 2024<img src="https://cdn-fhofj.nitrocdn.com/YLARnxovRxHnoSTcLUnkvhePKVxPqkls/assets/images/optimized/rev-dfb2699/www.ecowatch.com/wp-content/themes/ecowatch/assets/img/dist/checked-mark.svg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Edited by <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/cmcdermott" target="_blank">Chris McDermott</a><img src="https://cdn-fhofj.nitrocdn.com/YLARnxovRxHnoSTcLUnkvhePKVxPqkls/assets/images/optimized/rev-dfb2699/www.ecowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/blm-solar.jpg" alt="The 230-megawatt Desert Sunlight Battery Energy Storage System on 94 acres of BLM-managed public lands near Desert Center in Riverside County, California" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The 230-megawatt Desert Sunlight Battery Energy Storage System on 94 acres of BLM-managed public lands near Desert Center in Riverside County, California, on July 27, 2022. NextEra / Bureau of Land Management California<img src="https://cdn-fhofj.nitrocdn.com/YLARnxovRxHnoSTcLUnkvhePKVxPqkls/assets/images/optimized/rev-dfb2699/www.ecowatch.com/wp-content/themes/ecowatch/assets/img/dist/who-we-are-wrapper-6.webp" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/solar-energy-development-public-lands-blm.html#" target="_blank">Why you can trust us</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecowatch.com%2Fsolar-energy-development-public-lands-blm.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn-fhofj.nitrocdn.com/YLARnxovRxHnoSTcLUnkvhePKVxPqkls/assets/images/optimized/rev-dfb2699/www.ecowatch.com/wp-content/themes/ecowatch/assets/img/dist/article-facebook.svg" alt="Facebook icon" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a 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fr-draggable " style="" /></a><img src="https://cdn-fhofj.nitrocdn.com/YLARnxovRxHnoSTcLUnkvhePKVxPqkls/assets/images/optimized/rev-dfb2699/www.ecowatch.com/wp-content/themes/ecowatch/assets/img/dist/article-mail.svg" alt="Email icon" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />In order to help the United States transition to <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/decarbonizing-energy-system-trillions.html" target="_blank">renewable energy</a>, the Department of the Interior has announced a new <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/solar" target="_blank">solar energy</a> “roadmap,” including 22 million acres of <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/biden-conservation-leasing-public-lands.html" target="_blank">public lands</a> to expand solar energy development in the West, a press release from the <a href="https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-analysis-aims-optimize-solar-energy-development-throughout-west" target="_blank">Bureau of Land Management</a> (BLM) said.The BLM also announced plans for the next steps on green energy projects in California, Nevada and Arizona with the potential for more than 1,700 megawatts (MW) of solar power generation and 1,300 MW of <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/eia-battery-storage-growth.html" target="_blank">battery storage</a> capacity.“Our public lands are playing a critical role in the clean <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-transition-targets-countries-irena.html" target="_blank">energy transition</a> – and the progress the Bureau of Land Management is announcing today on several <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/clean-energy-projects-climate-bill.html" target="_blank">clean energy</a> projects across the West represents our continued momentum in achieving those goals,” said Tracy Stone-Manning, BLM director, in the press release. “Investing in clean and reliable renewable energy represents the BLM’s commitment to building a clean energy economy, tackling the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/extreme-weather-events-climate-crisis.html" target="_blank">climate crisis</a>, promoting American energy security, and creating jobs in communities across the country.”The BLM, along with the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory — part of the Department of Energy — have said <a href="https://electrek.co/2024/01/18/us-govt-opens-22-million-acres-federal-lands-solar/" target="_blank">700,000 acres</a> of public lands will need to be used for <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/toxic-landfills-solar-farms.html" target="_blank">solar farms</a> in the next two decades if the U.S. is to meet its <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/building-emissions-net-zero-united-states.html" target="_blank">net zero</a> goal by 2035, Electrek reported.“The Interior Department’s work to responsibly and quickly develop renewable energy projects is crucial to achieving the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 – and this updated solar roadmap will help us get there in more states and on more lands across the West,” said Laura Daniel-Davis, acting U.S. deputy secretary of the interior, in the press release.The BLM recently published a draft of the Utility-Scale Solar Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement — an update to the Western Solar Plan. The amended plan would simplify the department’s siting framework for solar projects.After months of stakeholder meetings, the new roadmap expands the 2012 Western Solar Plan — which originally included the states of Colorado, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico — to include Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.“The proposal is an update of BLM’s <a href="https://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Obama-Administration-Approves-Roadmap-for-Utility-Scale-Solar-Energy-Development-on-Public-Lands" target="_blank">2012 Western Solar Plan</a>, which identified areas… with high solar potential and low resource conflicts in order to guide responsible solar development and provide certainty to developers,” the BLM press release said. “The BLM’s preferred alternative in the updated Western Solar Plan would provide approximately 22 million acres of land open for solar application, giving maximum flexibility to reach the nation’s clean energy goals.”BLM used $4.3 million of Inflation Reduction Act funds for investment in Western Solar Plan updates.bravo and PG, when I said philanthropists are locking up public lands I meant from extractive purposes. They are dumping millions into climate change, democrat candidates and non-profits. They are going to turn many acres of your public lands into blue glass. And there is nothing you two roundheads can or will do about it.</blockquote>

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