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In its final days, the Trump administration sought to roll back key protections included in California's Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), a regulatory framework for balancing conservation and renewable energy development across 22 million acres of federal and state land in the California desert.
Yesterday, the new leadership at the Interior Department appointed by the Biden administration announced they will not seek to dismantle the DRECP, leaving the original plan intact. The original plan was completed in 2016 after 8 years of negotiations that included the collection and review of more than 16,000 public comments. Miraculously, when completed the DRECP faced zero lawsuits, a rarity in environmental planning efforts.
Laura Daniel Davis, Interior's principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management said in a statement, "The Trump administration’s proposal in its final days to re-open the plan is unnecessary and at odds with balanced land management. The Department will not move forward with the proposed environmental review of potential amendments to the DRECP."
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Blaming the Texas power outages on things like the 'Green New Deal' is like... is like... is like... Sorry folks, I don't have a folksy analogy. It's just plain dishonest, stupid, and dangerous. We need solutions based on science not sophistry."
