Trump’s pivot away from solar power hit planned 62,300-acre project in Nevada desert

Solar proponents are melting down over a Trump administration move to curb the development of a project in Nevada that environmental groups said would threaten the sensitive ecosystem and blight one of the most intact remaining landscapes in the state.
Esmeralda 7 was slated to become the largest solar development in America if the 62,300-acre array is ever completed.

But the Trump administration has thrown up a big obstacle, halting an environmental review that was fast-tracked last year by the Biden administration in its quest to eliminate fossil fuels from the energy grid.

The move caused an uproar in the solar industry, which is grappling with the Trump administration’s clawback of billions of dollars in federal subsidies.
When completed, the massive solar f …