The group Defenders of Wildlife filed suit today to overturn the Interior Department’s approval of two large solar projects planned for the Ivanpah Valley in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas, saying that the projects were approved without enough consideration of the damage they’d cause the federally Threatened desert tortoise.
The Stateline and Silver State South solar projects, which would straddle the California-Nevada line not far from the Mojave National Preserve, were approved by the Interior Department on February 19. http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/solar/photovoltaic-pv/group-sues-to-block-new-solar-projects-in-ivanpah-vallley.html