Two Biden priorities, climate and conservation, collide in the California desert
Two Biden priorities, climate and conservation, collide in the California desert Sammy Roth © (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Solar panels take in the afternoon sun at the 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar farm outside Desert Center, Calif., on 3,800 acres of federal land in Riverside County. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) The Trump administration left President Biden a dilemma in the California desert: a plan to remove protections from millions of acres of public lands and open vast areas to solar and wind farms. Biden's team could easily block the proposed changes, wh...