The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters,
including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.
Not exact matches
For towns with
vast tracts of land holdings like Minerva, Long Lake, North Hudson and Newcomb, the state share constitutes a significant chunk of their annual budgets —
including about $ 3 million for the latter.
They pollinate plants,
including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as
vast tracts of tropical rain forest.
Now, countries
including China, Kuwait and Sweden are snapping up
vast tracts of agricultural land in poorer nations, especially in Africa, to grow biofuels and food for themselves.
The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the
vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal
tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment,
including the climate.