{"id":2864,"date":"2008-06-30T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/30\/us-government-says-no-to-solar\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T18:39:59","slug":"us-government-says-no-to-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/us-government-says-no-to-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Says No to Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it hard to believe that the government has ignored the need for solar energy to the extent that it seems surprised that anyone wants to build new solar plants. From the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/27\/us\/27solar.html?partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\"> New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states &#8212; Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.But the decision to freeze new solar proposals temporarily, reached late last month, has caused widespread concern in the alternative-energy industry, as fledgling solar companies must wait to see if they can realize their hopes of harnessing power from swaths of sun-baked public land, just as the demand for viable alternative energy is accelerating. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it hard to believe that the government has ignored the need for solar energy to the extent that it seems surprised that anyone wants to build new solar plants. From the New York Times: Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/us-government-says-no-to-solar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Government Says No to Solar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Kc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}