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Feds Want to Keep Mining Claims from Trumping Renewable Energy Development on Public Lands

By Jude Joffe Block

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Las Vegas, NV – Making public lands available for renewable energy is a goal of the Obama administration. Now the Bureau of Land Management wants to ensure that clean energy projects don't get trumped by mining claims for the same land.

From the Fronteras Changing America Desk, Jude Joffe-Block reports.