{"id":3769,"date":"2011-10-31T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2011-10-31T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T15:38:12","slug":"solar-firms-flight-to-mojave-desert-sparks-environmental-friction-mcclatchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=3769","title":{"rendered":"Solar firms&#8217; flight to Mojave Desert sparks environmental friction | McClatchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;California&#8217;s Solar Gold Rush is under way, fueled by billions of dollars of federal stimulus funding and a new state law that requires utilities to buy a third of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. While the collapse of Fremont, Calif., solar manufacturer Solyndra Inc. has dominated the news in recent weeks because it received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, several other solar companies that got loan guarantees appear to be thriving.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2011\/10\/31\/128725\/solar-firms-flight-to-mojave-desert.html\">Solar firms&#8217; flight to Mojave Desert sparks environmental friction | McClatchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;California&#8217;s Solar Gold Rush is under way, fueled by billions of dollars of federal stimulus funding and a new state law that requires utilities to buy a third of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. While the collapse of Fremont, Calif., solar manufacturer Solyndra Inc. has dominated the news in recent weeks because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}