Developers have yet to see the approvals start flowing, however.

News reports say Trump has or will axe two Biden-created California monuments, but a fact sheet has been taken down and no executive action taken.

Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm focused on metals and materials, has invested $250 million into Lithium Americas Corp.’s Thacker Pass lithium mine project in Northern Nevada.

Witnessing the Desert Destruction as Greenlink West Transmission Project Breaks Ground

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them ne...

The U.S. Department of the Interior took a major step forward in protecting Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and the surrounding communities that rely on groundwater in the area.

Nevada’s Joshua Trees bulldozed in Mesquite; solar company defends solar farm

The BLM announced two public meetings to give giving residents the opportunity to have their concerns addressed.

An agreement has been signed to turn the 3,000-acre dairy farm into a solar energy facility.

For decades, field technicians have scoured the Mojave Desert monitoring threatened tortoises. Their searches sometimes uncovered human remains. Our writer untangles a mystery dug up by the turtle cou...

The project would erect some 149 wind turbines in southern Albany County.

Tribes, federal, state and local officials, conservation groups and residents supported protecting 600,000-plus acres of desert forever.

Officials with the DNR recently assessed 1,200 acres of public trust land in Otsego County near a major power transmission line to decide whether it was suitable for solar arrays.

Thanks to Biden administration policies, the momentum behind the energy transition could be hard to stall.

About the Guest(s): Jimmy Tobias is a renowned freelance journalist who has carved a niche in investigative reporting with a focus on public lands,...

The Public Utilities Commission approved NV Energy’s plans for keeping up with future energy demand.

Sagebrush sparrow on creosote, on the site of the proposed Rock Valley Solar Project.

The Public Utilities Commission approved NV Energy’s plans for keeping up with future energy demand.

Federal land managers will determine whether one of the largest potential power-producing solar plants in the world can be built just up the road from a wildlife refuge home to a trove of species foun...

An updated Western Solar Plan finalized on Friday sets the course for renewable energy development across 11 states, but ignores many of the conflicts that Nevada conservationists hoped it would ad…

In Nevada, plans are moving ahead for transmission lines, solar farms, geothermal plants and more in the name of fighting climate change. Yet even among environmental groups and government officials, ...

The Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service haven’t developed a management plan quickly enough, the lawsuit alleges.

Multiple Encroachments Doom Old Spanish Trail to Death of Thousand Cuts

After state energy regulators voted down a costly NV Energy proposal, lawmakers approved it two months later. Now NV Energy's Greenlink project is nearing construction. What happened?

Backlash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote there to Republican for the first time since 2004. But it's not a given Trump will derail President Biden's plans for more Nevada solar.