Posted by Johanna Wald in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
On February 7, 2009, the New York Times carried a story on the obstacles facing new transmission lines. According to the story, the Interior Department took a year to approve one line "crossing a wild river and required a $5...
Posted by Johanna Wald in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The West's renewable energy resource potential is huge. According to the Western Electricity Coordinating Council the wind potential alone exceeds the total U.S. energy demand. According to National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the solar potential of the southwest is more than...
Posted by Johanna Wald in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
NRDC's new Google Earth layer does an unprecedented job of identifying places where renewable energy development is inappropriate. But it's important to recognize the limitations of what we've done. We have not - I repeat not - greenlighted any lands...
