It was at least a year late, but today it finally arrived. The Draft Solar Development Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, a massive federal document addressing environmental concerns related to large-scale solar development — promised for more than a year by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Department of Energy, and ardently awaited by desert watchdogs — was made available today. It examines environmental impacts on desert ecosystems by large-scale solar plants and directs developers where and where not to site their projects.
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