Feds urged to avoid sensitive lands, support renewable energy

In January 2009, on its way out the door, the Bush administration finalized a vast network of energy corridors that would have promoted coal-fired and other fossil-fuel power plants and trampled national parks, national monuments and other sensitive public lands. The West-wide energy corridors are approximately 6000 miles long and cover 3.2 million acres of…

Transmission lines and towers should bring wind, solar energy to consumers