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The Wilderness Society just teamed up with Yale University to release a report promoting renewable energy development on public lands, and like the recent Michael Moore documentary Planet of the ...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2020/05/22/should-federal-public-lands-be-prioritized-for-renewable-energy-development/

Will the new, low petroleum prices cut the legs off tar sands and oil shale? Almost every American now sees that the price of oil has plummeted. Driving by a gas station makes seeing it easy. Gas...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/12/02/falling-oil-prices-to-benefit-wildlife/

Roast bird record at Mojave solar plant even worse than predicted? Plant workers call them “streamers.” Birds that fly through the beams of concentrated sunlight at the massive Ivanpah solar ...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/08/24/ivanpah-thermal-solar-power-plant-produces-death-rays-torching-many-birds/

This is a big laugh, but does have important info about Bundy’s rangeland harm- For those who don’t want to discuss rangeland, wildlife, trespassing cattle, rare animals like tortoises, or Cl...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/04/15/here-is-the-notorious-missing-blm-page-connecting-to-harry-reid-not/

News on wind and solar farms keeps getting worse- It doesn’t have to be that solar and wind power alternative energy has to be hard on people and animals. However, the way they are being rolled...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2013/05/14/ap-breaks-story-that-obama-administration-wont-prosecute-wind-farm-eagle-deaths/

Human activities tearing up the Mojave and Sonoran deserts set loose potentially lethal spores- Residents of the desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah and New Mexico generally become aware th...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2013/05/07/valley-fever-a-growing-threat-to-sw-desert-hikers-hunters-rock-hounds-nature-buffs-atvers-residents/

Talk about the need for a presidential candidate science debate leads somewhere- Back in 2008 there was mounting concern that science had always been left out of the presidential debates. This co...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2012/09/06/precident-setting-and-unexpected-obama-and-romney-answer-science-questions-asked-by-sciencedebate-org/

“Energy independence” has been the Republican energy policy since 1974- Americans have a bad case of Alzheimer’s when it come to knowledge or remembrance of energy policy.  Politicians ...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2012/03/05/drill-baby-drill-isnt-an-energy-policy-its-more-cultural-resentment/

Another Solar Development, Another Lost Landscape ? Chris Clarke gives a remarkable account of another landscape that has found its way into the cross-hairs of Solar Developers and Big Green, and...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2011/08/24/developing-the-carrizo-plain/

Some current cooperation with the Sierra Club suggests so- Solar  companies need to do offsets to reduce harms, and hopefully at times they can improve wildlife habitat. Here is a recent hopeful...

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2011/08/11/are-solar-companies-learning-its-smart-to-get-along-with-conservationists/