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70,000 Joshua Trees are threatened by a 16-square mile project called Sawtooth Solar, near Beatty, Nevada. This utility-scale solar project proposal is adjacent the Death Valley National Park, along the "Nevada Triangle" in a basin called Sarcobatus Flat. This project is just one of dozens being proposed as 9 million acres of public land are opened to solar development. Kevin Emmerich and Laura Cunningham of Basin and Range Watch are joined by filmmaker Justin McAffee in this third of the series Desert Apocalypse. They look at all the plant and animal life in these ecosystems that ar...

The Bureau of Land Management wants to open a vast frontier of public land the size of Indiana to solar development

He says clean energy and good jobs are vital, but local residents who want the project relocated said they were never informed he might act.

As massive solar farms spread out across the desert, the Bureau of Land Management is tasked with balancing development with preserving plants and wildlife.

The Bureau of Land Management proposes to add 5.4 million acres in five states that would be eligible for streamlined permitting of utility-scale solar