Biden to designate area sacred to tribes as largest national monument of his presidency | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Hemmers said that while the tribe wants to actively encourage recreation on the newly created national monument, it wants to see energy and clean energy development done elsewhere in Nevada.
57% : Outside of the proposed monument area, the Bureau of Land Management has identified more than 9 million acres of federal land that could be used to build utility-scale solar panels, as well as 16.8 million acres of federal land that could be developed for wind energy.
52% : Designating the new monument has rankled some clean energy groups who warn it could hamper wind and solar energy development in Southern Nevada.
52% : Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesWhile Interior and the Bureau of Land Management have identified millions of acres in Nevada for renewable energy development, much of the public land within the proposed monument area can't be considered for clean energy development because they are part of the critical habitat for a desert tortoise species, the Department of Interior said last year.

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