I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared on November 26, 2010. In an effort that could help avoid conflicts between wind energy developers and environmentalists, the United States Department of the Interior this week released a map that identifies breeding densities of the imperiled sage-grouse in 11 Western states. The chicken-sized bird [...]
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Sage-grouse map could help avoid wind farm fights
Posted in endangered species, renewable energy, wind power on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Saving the desert tortoise from solar power plants
Posted in BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, environment, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged desert tortoise, Ivanpah, Mercy Vaughn, Peter Woodman on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In the New York Times on Wednesday, I follow up my story on solar power plants and desert tortoises: In an article in The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about how the fortunes of big solar power plants in the desert Southwest can hinge on the way developers handle imperiled [...]
Desert tortoise sets pace for solar power projects
Posted in BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged desert tortoise, Ivanpah on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times special Energy report, I write about how the success of large-scale solar power plants being built in the desert Southwest depends on how developers deal with the imperiled desert tortoise and other wildlife: NIPTON, Calif. — On the construction site of the $2 billion Ivanpah solar power [...]
Judge orders California to consider species listing for pika
Posted in Uncategorized, climate change, global warming, endangered species, tagged American pika, Earthjustice, Foursquare on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about the continuing legal battle over placing the American pika, a small mountain-dwelling critter, on state and federal endangered species lists due to climate change threats to the animal’s survival: In an article in Wednesday’s paper, I wrote about an environmental law firm [...]
Foursquare ad campaign helps save climate-imperiled pika
Posted in climate change, global warming, endangered species, green marketing, tagged American pika, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Foursquare on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a story in Wednesday’s New York Times, I write about how Earthjustice, a non-profit law firm, ran a successful successful fundraising campaign to help the climate change-endangered American pika by using Foursquare and location-based advertising: SAN FRANCISCO IN a city passionate about the environment and technology, commuters are using their smartphones to check in [...]
New Sierra Club leader plans next front in the climate war
Posted in climate change, endangered species, environment, global warming, green policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, tagged climate change, endangered species, global warming, Michael Brune, Sierra Club on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Lori Eanes. In a piece I wrote for Yale Environment 360, I interview the new executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, about what’s next for the green movement in the wake of the defeat of federal climate change legislation: In March, Michael Brune took over as executive director of the Sierra Club, [...]
Fighting climate change with the Endangered Species Act
Posted in climate change, endangered species, global warming, green policy, tagged American pika, Center for Biological Diversity, climate change, Earthjustice, Endangered Species Act, global warming, Natural Resources Defense Council on July 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service On Thursday, Yale Environment 360 published a story I wrote about a growing fight over using the U.S. Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife at risk of extinction from climate change: While a high-profile battle raged over listing the polar bear as a threatened species due to melting Arctic [...]
Feinstein solar ban offers some innovative incentives
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, environment, green policy, green tech, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged BrightSource Energy, desert tortoise, Goldman Sachs, Mojave Desert, Senator Dianne Feinstein, solar energy, solar power plants, Tessera Solar, wildlife on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
image: Tessera Solar In a follow-up to my New York Times story Tuesday on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s bill to ban renewable energy production in parts of California’s Mojave Desert, I take a look at some of the incentives in the legislation that could speed green energy projects: In Tuesday’s Times, I write about Senator Dianne [...]
Solar showdown in the Mojave
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, climate change, endangered species, enviro startups, environment, global warming, green policy, green startups, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Tessera Solar, tagged BrightSource Energy, desert tortoise, Goldman Sachs, Mojave Desert, Senator Dianne Feinstein, solar energy, solar power plants, Tessera Solar, wildlife on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Tuesday’s New York Times, I write about California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s move to ban renewable energy production in two proposed national monuments in the Mojave Desert: AMBOY, Calif. — Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big [...]
Bats take down West Virginia wind farm
Posted in alternative energy, endangered species, green policy, wind power, tagged Beech Ridge Energy, Endangered Species Act, Indiana bat, Invenergy, wind farms on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written before about the coming collision between green energy projects and endangered wildlife. Now we have a federal court decision in a case involving an endangered bat and a West Virginia wind farm. As I write Thursday in The New York Times: A federal judge’s ruling that stopped construction of a West Virginia wind [...]
