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Conservation Groups Ask Interior Department to Cancel Solar Project Over Desert Tortoise Impacts
March 20, 2024
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, March 20 -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release:

A coalition of organizations and individuals are requesting that the Department of the Interior (Interior) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cancel the proposed large-scale solar energy project located south of Pahrump, Nevada called the Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project because of significant impacts to the imperiled Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii).

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