Last week, we reported that the BLM and US Department of Energy had finally released their massive Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on large-scale solar development in the western United States. The 11,000-page document came more than a year after it was first promised — too late to influence the development of the first generation of large-scale solar plants in the country. However, the Solar PEIS almost certainly signals a symbolic and practical end to the controversial fast-track permitting process that over the past year has approved a number of the world’s largest solar plants for construction in southern California.
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