(Update: The solar siting analysis was released in June 2023.) This fall marked the launch of Washington State University’s Least-Conflict Solar Siting project, which will identify areas in Eastern Washington with the least potential for conflict over the siting of large-scale solar energy projects. 探花精选 Washington led efforts to bring this process to the state’s Columbia Plateau region, where increasing pressure to combat climate change through large-scale clean energy projects has been met with concerns about ecosystem impacts. Now that the process is underway, 探花精选 is focused on protecting sagebrush birds and the habitat they rely on while pursuing policies to help accelerate the deployment of responsibly-sited renewable energy. In 2019, 探花精选 Washington helped pass the state’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), which requires state utilities to provide customers with 100% clean electricity by mid-century. It was one of the most aggressive clean energy...