Federal Lawsuit Seeks Halt to NV Energy’s Greenlink Transmission Lines in Nevada

This NV Energy line may support a solar farm the size of Las Vegas. Environmentalists sued to stop it

Two Nevada environmental groups are suing the federal government over its approval of Greenlink West, a 472-mile NV Energy transmission line that would run from the Las Vegas Valley to the Reno area.

Federal lawsuit seeks halt to NV Energy’s Greenlink transmission lines in Nevada

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A lawsuit filed on Wednesday aims to stop NV Energy's Greenlink West transmission line project, arguing government approvals failed to recognize what the project would mean for wildlife and pristine desert ecosystems. In essence, conservation groups are saying the government can't see the forest for the trees. By approving the power line, government agencies are ignoring the impact of massive solar farms that will follow. Two …

A massive electric transmission line project by utility NV Energy, planned to cut through some of the state's most pristine undeveloped land, is being challenged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by two Nevada environmental groups. Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Basin and Range Watch filed the lawsuit in U.S. federal district court, arguing that decisions by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National P…

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