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Writers on the Range: Solar Power Works Best When it Stays Small and Local

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Environmentalists Feeling Burned by Rush to Build Solar Projects

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Land Speculators See Silver Lining in Solar Projects

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Our Comments on Supplemental EIS for Solar Developments

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Obama Administration Announces ‘Solar Energy Zones’

Los Angeles Times on the Supplemental Programmatic EIS for solar development on public lands

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Feds ‘Strongly’ Oppose Chaffetz Bill to Sell Public Lands

Western Lands and the BLM testified against a bill that would sell off more than 3 million acres of public land

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Western Lands Testimony Opposing Land Disposal Bill

HR 1126 would order the sale of more than 3 million acres of “excess” federal land and send the proceeds to the General Treasury. Western Lands testified against the bill in October 2011.

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Study-Land Trade Could Cost County

Houston Chronicle, August 24, 2011

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Invasive Solar Energy

Salt Lake Tribune, July 11, 2011

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Solar Energy Plans Pit Green vs. Green

USA Today, June 2, 2011

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Summer 2011 Newsletter

Wrong Sites for Solar

Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2011

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Myths About Large-Scale Solar Threaten Public Lands

Renewable Energy World, April 26, 2011

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Solar: California’s new gold rush

The Desert Sun, April 24, 2011

Green energy offers the prospect of an economic boon, but some worry environmental, cultural cost is too high

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Go big or go home

Colorado Independent, April 7, 2011

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Our Latest Newsletter

Winter 2011, Volume XV, Number 2

Including:

WLP Board President Testifies in Congress • Save Point Reyes • Skull Valley, Lochsa, Ivanpah Updates

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