Rover Metals, a Canadian mining exploration company, has proposed drilling up to 30 exploratory boreholes on public lands just north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, a critical wetland habitat that supports a dozen endangered and threatened species.
Federal land managers auctioned off thousands of acres in Nevada’s Amargosa desert for solar development, resulting in the highest-yielding onshore renewable energy auction in the agency’s history.
A court ruling that mining companies cannot dump waste rock on public land where no economically valuable minerals are present could send projects back to square one.