The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management wants to expand a siting and permitting plan for solar energy projects on Western public lands in 11 states in a solar energy development proposal announced in January. The new BLM “Western Solar Plan” announced late last month (Aug. 29) consists of a final environmental impact statement and… More BLM to open 31 million Western acres to solar development

Despite the Biden administration’s enthusiasm for capturing carbon emissions from power plant and ethanol manufacturers, moving the CO2 by pipeline and storing it underground, other barriers continue to raise problems for the young technology. While technology to capture CO2 stack emissions has well-known problems, those appear to be engineering and economic issues, more likely to… More Legal landmines face CO2 pipelines