The Bureau of Land Management has pulled the plug on a massive Nevada solar power project, furthering the Trump administration’s crackdown on renewable energy projects.

BLM on Thursday updated its planning website for the Esmeralda 7 project, stating that the agency’s environmental review has been “cancelled.” The agency did not provide a reason for the cancellation.

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The Esmeralda 7 Solar Project was meant to build seven solar power plants with battery energy storage on approximately 118,000 acres of BLM-managed public lands near Tonopah, Nevada. It would have produced nearly 6.2 g

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