Oakland Company Kills Huge Solar Plant

Oakland solar powerhouse BrightSource has abandoned plans to build a controversial solar plant in a sensitive area of the eastern Mojave Desert, according to the Los Angeles Times. United States Senator Dianne Feinstein has been pushing to turn the area into a national monument. Environmentalists who had opposed the solar plant were ecstatic about BrightSource’s decision. The region is home to Big Horn Mountain Sheep and a variety of plants and reptiles not found elsewhere.