A lonely expanse of Mojave Desert straddling a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it intersection on a desolate Nevada state highway west of Las Vegas is a sandy forest of yucca and creosote bush where desert tortoises live in triple-digit summer heat.
By 2020, it could be the home of NextEra Energy’s Yellow Pine solar power project, a 250-megawatt solar photovoltaic array proposed for 9,000 acres of federal Bureau of Land Management land in Nevada near the California border.
If the BLM gives Yellow Pine a green light, it will be part of the BLM’s plan to swiftly approve at least eight solar power ...
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