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| First Solar signs 300-MW PPA with PG&E |
| RenewableEnergyWorld |
First Solar has signed a 300-megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) with electricity from a utility-scale solar photovoltaic power facility that First Solar is developing in Southern California. Read More...
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| U.S. appeals court rejects wilderness groups |
| LocalNews8,.com |
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Sierra Club, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and The Wilderness Society cannot intervene in a lawsuit filed by Utah's Kane County seeking ownership of 2 dirt roads crossing federal lands. Read More...
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| National Monument issue heats up in Congress |
| New York Times |
Efforts to strip the Obama administration's authority to create new national monuments are gaining momentum in Congress as lawmakers continue to roll out bills aimed at protecting their states from what they view as a White House agenda to tie up large tracts of land. Read More...
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| Green energy jobs? Not from Obama's big government meddling |
| U.S. News & World Report |
The Obama administration and its congressional allies have been promising to usher in a green economy that will create millions of new green jobs. There's only one problem with all of the feel-good talk of creating green jobs: It makes no economic sense whatsoever, and where it has been tried most extensively, evidence shows that it's a job-destroying, economy-weakening fiasco. Read More...
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| In Utah, a move to seize federal land |
| Los Angeles Times |
The state House passes a bill allowing the use of eminent domain to take protected land from the federal government. Utah wants to develop a stretch outside Arches National Park and other areas.
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