2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:15:26 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] California "Desert Energy Plan Ignores Major EPA Renewables Tool"
 
Desert Energy Plan Ignores Major EPA Renewables Tool

by Chris Clarke
Rewire/KCET (CA)
December 26, 2012

Authors of a gigantic, multi-year plan to develop as much as two million acres of the California Desert for renewable energy seem to be unaware that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has gotten there first. The EPA has spent the last four years inventorying two million acres of polluted land in California that might be suitable for renewable energy development, but their work doesn't even rate a mention in the upcoming desert energy plan.

A preliminary guide to the content of the mammoth Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), includes thousands of pages of description of what we'll see in the DRECP when it's finally published. But one thing it seems not to include is any mention of the EPA's RePowering America's Lands initiative, a multi-year, multi- million-dollar project that has already identified millions of acres of contaminated lands suitable for renewable energy development, including sites in the California desert.

The DRECP's recently released Description and Comparative Evaluation of Draft DRECP Alternatives is a huge document intended only as a preliminary guide to DRECP's eventual Draft Environmental Impact Statement, and ReWire may have missed a stray paragraph or footnote referencing the EPA's project.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/government/drecp/desert-energy-plan- ignores-major-epa-renewables-tool.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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