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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Oliver Milman

America’s big shift to green energy has a woolly mammoth problem

America’s humble web of pylons and wires have become the hottest climate topic in Congress.
America’s humble web of pylons and wires have become the hottest climate topic in Congress. Photograph: John G Mabanglo/EPA

America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transmission lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils.

The Greenlink West project would build a 470-mile-long transmission line bringing clean electricity north of Las Vegas to Reno in Nevada, but it cuts through an area containing everything from woolly mammoth tusks to giant sloths to ancient camels.

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