Interior’s scientific integrity policy doesn’t sit well with some scientists
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PEER | September 10, 2024
The Interior Department posted a revised scientific integrity policy last month. It requires each component agency to appoint a career staff person as scientific integrity officer. But to one group of scientists, the policy differs little from protections that were greatly weakened during ...
EPA lets Colorado off the hook again in air pollution open records
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Now it’s likely the environmental groups will have to file their own lawsuit with the 10th Circuit, demanding the EPA’s tougher open-access rule be put back in place. Coloradans wanting to check up on actual air pollution emissions from oil and gas or other sites will be “getting ...
NV Energy Gets Greenlight for 470-Mile Transmission Project
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Utility company NV Energy will begin constructing the Greenlink West system in December and expects it to be in service by May 2027. The project’s recent record of decision allows the BLM along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, and the Department of Energy to ...
New Transmission Line Ensures Destructive Energy Development on Great Basin’s Public Lands
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BLM has approved a major high voltage transmission line, opening up Nevada’s most remote, scenic, and biologically significant areas to development ...
Major Nevada power line, solar project win final approval
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PEER | September 9, 2024
The proposed route and its impacts on the national monument, as well as undeveloped desert lands across seven counties, is part of an ongoing debate over green energy and how the infrastructure needed to get that electricity to the power grid will forever change previously untouched places ...