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The Public Land with Private Eyes
The same federal lands being mined and drained to power AI are now being monitored by AI. No one is governing the loop.
 • Michael Khamis
Solar Is Destroying Something Ancient - And Nobody's Talking About It
That crunching sound under your boots in the desert is hundreds of years of living biocrust soil, and we're crushing it for solar farms that could be…
 • Michael Khamis
What They Left in the Ground
On federal public lands, 16,000 abandoned oil and gas wells are leaking, and the people who drilled them are gone.
 • Michael Khamis
California’s Oil & Gas Leasing Door Is Creaking Open Again
Not a lease sale yet. Still a turning point.
 • Michael Khamis
Delay Without Resolution: How California Permits Clean Energy
Soda Mountain Solar shows why California needs faster clean energy approvals and clearer lines on where to build.
 • Michael Khamis
Gravel Roads & Yellowcake
Nuclear’s back — will this one mine become the blueprint, or the cautionary tale, for how the U.S. expands uranium mining in the name of energy…
 • Michael Khamis
Boom Towns, Second Boom
How Old Mining Hubs Could Anchor the Clean Energy Buildout Instead of the Next Desert Land Rush
 • Michael Khamis
The Wins We Almost Missed
2025's Quiet Wins for Public Lands, Access & the Energy Transition
 • Michael Khamis
Grow the Grid, Spare the Backcountry - FERC's Oct 16th Meeting Summary
Faster hookups, tighter (digital) maps, fewer new scars (if we choose)
 • Michael Khamis
Orchestrating Energy to Protect Public Land
Grid efficiency spares wild places. AI may gulp power, but it can also orchestrate when and where we use it.
 • Michael Khamis
Ambler Road - The line on the land
One Herd in decline. Ecosystems face damage. So, what is the justification of this project? Is it worth it?
 • Michael Khamis
Salt at Sunset
How sodium-ion batteries turn noon sunshine into reliable 7 p.m. power. And the impacts to public lands.
 • Michael Khamis
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