In a speech given at the Nevada Legislature in April, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said he would propose renewable energy legislation that would help bring revenue back to the states and counties where the projects are built.
On Tuesday, Ensign, along with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and representatives Dean Heller, R-Nev., Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., introduced the Renewable Energy Permitting Act in Congress.
This act would affect future renewable energy projects in Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and California.
The Renewable Energy Permitting Act is modeled after the geothermal revenue-sharing program already implemented in Nevada, which allows the state, counties and federal government to receive a portion of the profits that the Bureau of Land Management receives from selling and leasing land.
