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Public opposition forces retooling for California desert renewable energy plan
2015-03-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: A barrage of criticism has forced federal and state officials to redirect the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, a multiyear effort to balance big renewable energy projects with protections for California wildlands and their inhabitants. Six years ago the plan was conceived as a roadmap, meant to guide development for growing interest in large-scale solar and wind projects on more than 22 million acres of lands throughout the lower half of the state, including the Mojave and Colorado deserts....
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