Focusing on Low-Conflict Zones to Promote the West’s Economy, Protect Wildlands, and Build a Clean Energy Future

October 16, 2011, wilderness.org | “On July 14, 2011, Interior Secretary Salazar announced the Department of the Interior’s commitment to create a “framework for developing large utility-scale solar energy projects on public lands, based on landscape-level planning and the best available science, designed to promote the development in “solar energy zones” in six western states.””

Robert Brothers shared a link.

“~ Major conservation group develops a program to lobby federal agencies in the USA for solar projects that do not damage important ecological resources

Solar energy is already playing an important and growing role in meeting our energy needs, kick-starting the economy and protecting our clean air and water with sustainable, American made energy. With rooftop solar programs across the country, large-scale projects capable of powering hundreds of tho…”

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