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It appears that almost 200,000 acres of Mojave Desert will be under federal wilderness protection now that Congress passed the Omnibus Land Management Act of 2009.<\/p>\n

Much more was set aside throughout California, as I report in my radio story for The California Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Senator Dianne Feinstein is eyeing almost a million additional acres in the Mojave off of old Route 66 between Ludlow and Needles.<\/p>\n

There are currently 163 proposed renewable energy projects for federal lands in the Mojave Desert region. Nineteen of them are slated for the land Senator Feinstein wants to set aside<\/a>. If energy companies can\u2019t build on that land, it follows that they\u2019ll try to build it in the land that\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s got a lot of people who live in the unprotected areas of the Mojave worried. Not only are most of the state\u2019s large-scale renewable energy projects planned for this region, but as I explored in a recent two-part series for Climate Watch<\/a>, there\u2019s also a transmission corridor in the works to carry that power to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Use the player below to listen to my conversation with Jim Harvey, who heads the Alliance for Responsible Energy Policy<\/a>, about what all of this new land protection means for environmentalists like him.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/03\/jimharvey-blog2.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that almost 200,000 acres of Mojave Desert will be under federal wilderness protection and Senator Dianne Feinstein is eyeing almost a million more acres in the region. If energy companies can\u2019t build on that land, it follows that they\u2019ll try to build it in the land that\u2019s left. And that\u2019s got a lot of people who live in the unprotected areas of the Mojave worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[164,366,435,675],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-business","category-power","tag-desert","tag-mojave-desert","tag-policy","tag-wilderness"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"\nPossible Detour on the "Electron Superhighway" | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/03\/25\/possible-detour-on-the-electron-superhighway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Possible Detour on the "Electron Superhighway" | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It appears that almost 200,000 acres of Mojave Desert will be under federal wilderness protection and Senator Dianne Feinstein is eyeing almost a million more acres in the region. 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