Eco-conscious Burning Man wants to block clean energy project

Comment on this storyCommentBurning Man attendees trek to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert every year with a “leave no trace” ethos, erecting and then dissembling a temporary city for the raucous week-long art and music festival. Organizers even aim to make the bacchanal “carbon negative.”But now the people behind Burning Man are suing President Biden’s administration to stop a geothermal project that may one day produce carbon-free energy.The Burning Man Project, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that holds the festival every year, filed a lawsuit Monday against the federal government in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, arguing regulators at the Bureau of Land Management failed to properly take into account the environmental impact of the geothermal exploration project when they approved it.The plaintiffs fear that building roads, power lines and eventually a…

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