Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced on December 5, 2022, that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will develop an updated Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to help guide solar energy development on public lands throughout the West. The Biden-Harris administration has advocated for clean energy development, and the preparation of a new solar PEIS aligns with the goals of both Executive Order 14008, which directed the Secretary to streamline solar permitting on public lands, and the Energy Act of 2020, which directed DOI to “seek to issue permits that, in total, authorize production of not less than 25 gigawatts of electricity from wind, solar, and geothermal energy projects by not later than 2025.” The BLM is currently processing 65 utility-scale onshore clean energy projects across the West, which have the combined potential to add over…
BLM To Accelerate Solar Energy Development on Public Lands in the West | Perkins Coie
