Sentences with phrase «public lands in»

The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres.

Although several large - scale solar projects in California have sputtered (including two from BrightSource) and technical challenges are considerable, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a move in early July to prioritize more than 300,000 acres of public lands in six Western states for use by utility - scale solar plants, with nearly half of that acreage in California.

Last October, when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced approval of the first two new solar plants on public lands in more than two decades, Johanna Wald, the NRDC's senior attorney, hailed the move as «a major milestone in renewable energy on public lands and a down payment on America's transition to a clean energy economy.»

Withdrawing plans to allow development of oil shale and tar sands on 800,000 acres of federal public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

No matter who wins the bragging rights, it's all pretty great news: In the United States, the Department of the Interior just gave approval to a 1 GW solar power on public lands in southern California; and, in

For those not following closely Salazar's first month on the job, the «again made clear» referred to there is in reference to the Secretary's halting of oil and natural gas development leases on public lands in Utah, also put in place in the last days of the Bush Administration.

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management has approved routes for segments of the Gateway West electric transmission line project on public lands in southwestern Idaho, connecting previously authorized routes in southern Wyoming and eastern Idaho.

In 2012, Rivera Herrera and the coalition successfully worked with legislators to pass a new bill that designated all public lands in the corridor a protected nature reserve.

The Mont Rothery Wind Project, situated on public lands in the MRC of Haute - Gaspésie and MRC of Côte - de-Gaspé, is comprised of 37 wind generating turbines each with a 2 MW capacity.

«Because of these proposed backward - looking changes and new development plans for public lands in the region, the grouse is once again at risk of extinction and in need of stronger protection,» said Steve Holmer, American Bird Conservancy's Vice President of Policy.

And here are just a few other «side effects» of mining on public lands in the West: cyanide spills; wildlife habitat destruction and fish kills caused by poisoned waters; and water pollution caused by acid mine drainage, which leaches potentially toxic heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc from rocks.

President Obama's Every Kid in a Park Initiative was developed to introduce 4th graders across the nation to public lands in an effort to build the next generation of outdoor stewards.

Elevating renewable energy development to a departmental priority, the Interior Department «worked with industry, state, tribal, and local partners to approve 34 projects on public lands in western states and to build an offshore regulatory framework in the Atlantic,» Secretary Salazar stated.

We are focused on purchasing the remaining public lands in the corridor.

· Thursday, Dec. 10: New Energy Future: the role of public lands in clean energy production and carbon capture, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar

When you attend a Healthy Parks Healthy People program, you are being introduced to parks and public lands in your backyard, while being active and healthy.

From the mid-1990s almost a million fox baits were dropped by plane every year across public lands in the south - west of WA, as part of a biodiversity project called Western Shield.

December 21, 2017 • The government's case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accuses him of leading an armed standoff over control of U.S. public lands in 2014.

October 28, 2016 • The verdict is expected to have sweeping implications on the militia movement and its apparent goal of taking over millions of acres of public lands in the West.

The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama - era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother bears and their cubs hibernating in dens.

Xerces staff scientists are surveying public lands in several states for monarchs and milkweeds.

As part of this partnership, and partnerships with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, Xerces staff scientists are surveying public lands in several states for monarchs and milkweeds.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will apply «eco-friendly» tick control treatments on public lands in the Southern

That's what many ranchers and sympathizers opposing federal control of public lands in the West concluded after the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

For example, last year, Patagonia, the $ 575 million outdoor apparel and gear maker based in Ventura, California, released Defined by the Line, an eight - minute documentary about climber Josh Ewing, who left his corporate gig to protect public lands in southeastern Utah.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

Imagine being able to learn to ride a bike for almost three miles without having to watch for vehicular traffic,» Jamie R. Simone, program director, Urban Parks Program at the Trust for Public Land in Chicago.

Although his office found that the 149th Street and 1 train yards were not ideal spots for construction at this time, the report stated that the Concourse Yard «likely represents the greatest potential for mixed - use development of any piece of public land in the borough.»

Questions - Foreign Office Ten minute rule motion - eradication of slavery (UK company supply chains) Debate - transport and the economy Debate - preparations for the Rio Plus summit Adjournment debate - supermarkets and public land in Scotland

Located in an Erie County park and overlooking the Niagara River, the Tribute Garden is the first permanent Garden of its kind located on public land in the United States, and both the site itself and $ 50,000 in funding for completion of Phases I and II of the project were donated by Erie County.

In your look at the advance of industrial - scale solar generation across public land in the south - west US, you focused on...

«Now,» she says, «when you're doing work on public land in an area that's likely to have fossil resources, you have to show how you're going to deal with them,» a process known as mitigation paleontology.

Spike and Kelly Goss worry ranchers are being squeezed off public land in the West.

In fact, no public land in Texas is owned by the federal government; instead, it's owned by the state, which must approve any action the federal government wishes to take on Texas land.

The «freedom camping» system here allows you to camp on any public land in the country.

Other artists looking at economic matters include Irena Haiduk, who has created a digital apparatus for museumgoers to purchase public land in Serbia, after a privatization measure recently adopted in that country.

, produced in homage to the civil rights hero John Lewis, stands on public land in Atlanta as evidence of Mr. Dial's ability to translate the facts of history into evocative visual metaphors.

The monumental sculpture The Bridge, produced in homage to the civil rights hero John Lewis, stands on public land in Atlanta as evidence of Mr. Dial's ability to translate the facts of history into evocative visual metaphors.

In the Bureau of Land Management's upcoming lease auction for over 700 million tons of coal on public land in Wyoming, there's likely only to be one bidder: Peabody Energy

The fossil fuel industry has already started to change the face of the Western Arctic — on state and private land near Nuiqsut and, increasingly, in the largely still untouched federal public land in the Reserve — with oil and gas drilling, to the detriment of public health in Ahtuangaruak's community.

The BLM already has identify 21 million acres of public land in 11 western states that would be a good fit for wind energy projects, 29 million acres in six southwestern states for solar energy developments, and 140 million acres in western states and Alaska for geothermal energy exploration.

Recently Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R - UT) introduced a bill that would have transferred more than 3 million acres of public land in the Western U.S. to the states.

In any case, these courses may be required for younger riders on public land in Texas.

The Alaska Native Title Claims Settlement Act 1971 (ANCSA) authorised Alaska Natives to select, and receive title to, 44 million acres of federally - owned public land in Alaska, and also to receive $ US962, 000,000 in cash as settlement of their Aboriginal claim to land in the State of Alaska.

Not exact matches

Barry Neil is linked to 2 organisations which are included in 4 lists - Public Companies - non WA, Property - Land Developers, Shopping Centre Owners and Property -(Built - form) Developers.

Lendlease is included in 6 lists - Construction Companies, Contractors, Property -(Built - form) Developers, Property - Land Developers, Public Companies - non WA and Shopping Centre Owners.

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Even a tweet from Trump criticizing China the night before Tillerson landed in Beijing did not, at least in public, create any discord.

And the information that is available is in the public interest, since Trump is competing to hold the highest public office in the land.