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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!LOS ANGELES (Jan. 2) - On a strip of California's Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation's quest for cleaner power. Oakland, Calif.-based BrightSource Energy has been pushing for more than two years for permission to erect 400,000 mirrors on the site to gather the sun's energy. It could become the first project of its kind on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property, leaving a footprint for others to follow on vast stretches of public land ...
I thought I would love the new Ken Burns PBS series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea."Twelve hours on my DVR is a big chunk of real estate, so yesterday I decided to begin watching the series that premiered two weeks ago. I'd recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon, and I was eager to hear the back-story of this – and other – national parks. I'm a Ken Burns fan. "Frank Lloyd Wright" prompted me to read a biography and half a dozen books on his work. "Mark Twain" introduced me to Twain's dark side, but still gave the most celebrated writer in American history his ...
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