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NY Times reports that the BLM has put a freeze on large scale solar developments on public land

Posted on June 27, 2008

Apparently there really is a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that applies to all major federal decisions with the potential to significantly affect the quality of the human environment . In accordance with that law, the Bureau of Land Management has placed a freeze on approving applications for large scale installations of solar energy plants on public land, pending the completion of a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). You can find out more about the project and the opportunity for public comment at http://solareis.anl.gov/. If you are really a policy wonk and love ...

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