Bureau of Land Management

11.29.09

Solar Freeze

A new Federal initiative has development of solar power plants slowing to a standstill
By Matt Ransford Posted 06.30.2008 at 9:19 am 9 Comments

Few would begrudge an environmental impact study in advance of new power plant construction, least of all proponents of alternative energy. But with the Bureau of Land Management's recent decision to put a freeze on any new solar projects on the land it oversees in order to study the potential environmental effects, those same proponents are now looking skeptically at the federal government.

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