(Source: Sierra Club) HOLLISTER, Calif. - Today the Sierra Club and Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society challenged the County of San Benito's certification of its final environmental impact report for the Panoche Valley Solar Project. The lawsuit stated the County failed to consider the dire effect of California's historic drought on wildlife that are already on a path to extinction without intervention. The county also ignored information about the Panoche Valley's role as a climate change refuge for at least one endangered species, and about how the project could also adversely affect vital groundwater resources in the area. "The Panoche Valley is a place of unique ecological value,...
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