BrightSource Energy, which had been planning to build a massive solar power plant in the eastern Mojave Desert wilderness, announced today that it is no longer pursuing the project. Environmentalists had been gearing up for a fight against the project, saying that the land included valuable bird and wildlife habitat.
By Garrison Frost
September 17, 2009
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.
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