Dianne Feinstein

Senator Feinstein indicated during Desert Protection Act hearings that the expansion of the Park boundaries should not interfere with the development of the landfill since that process was already well underway and in the hands of the…

Chairman Bingaman and members of the Committee, thank you for your consideration of our comments and we look forward to working with you and Senator Feinstein to both improve and pass this important legislation.

Let me start by expressing my deep appreciation to Senator Feinstein not only for all of her work consulting stakeholders and crafting this balanced bill, but more broadly for her distinguished accomplishments championing the preservation…

Senator Feinstein's legislation can be a vehicle for ensuring some of that cooperation.

Senator Feinstein is to be commended for her leadership in developing a comprehensive approach that will spur renewable development in California and will provide new protections for vast portions of the desert.

I want to thank Senator Dianne Feinstein for her leadership and tireless effort in drafting this bill, the California Desert Protection Act of 2010.

Senator Feinstein has worked diligently with--through a collaborative process to identify where transmission needs might be for some of the proposed renewable projects in southern California.

We are grateful to Senator Feinstein for recognizing how important her legislation is to the military.

We would appreciate the opportunity to work with Senator Feinstein and the Committee on minor and technical amendments to this section.

We would also urge the Committee and Senator Feinstein to encourage BLM to clear out speculative lease applications.

We urge the Congress to work with us.

We want to note the extraordinary cooperation that has gone on between the Obama administration Department of Interior and Governor Schwarzenegger's administration.

This bill represents a significant and laudable effort to preserve the environment and promote the development of renewable energy while at the same time protecting the ability of the U.S. military to carry out its mission.

The department is committed to working closely with Senator Feinstein, this committee, and the Congress on addressing the renewable energy national priority.

We tried to achieve a careful balance between conserving the desert's pristine heritage, while creating an efficient process for renewable energy development.

There were literally hundreds of thousands of acres in patchwork squares owned by the Catellus Corporation.

The bill would also facilitate renewable development on suitable lands.

Senator Feinstein has stated that this is a non starter and not to be considered.

NRDC supports the goals of Senator Feinstein's legislation and believes that it is an important step toward balancing America's need to shift to clean energy with the need to protect unique and sensitive lands.

S. 2921 represents a milestone in Senator Feinstein's two decades-long effort to conserve the deserts of southern California.

The bill I have introduced would designate 2 new national monuments.

It is inconceivable to me that our planning for the use of federal land in the California desert would have paid so much attention to the special interests of Off-Highway Vehicles users, while at the same time essentially ignoring the high…

I would like to commend Senator Feinstein for, particularly her statement this morning about adding a new solar energy study zone for the west Mojave area.

I want to assure the Committee that SCE would not support this legislation if we believed it would endanger our ability to increase delivery of renewable energy to our customers.

The Department is committed to working closely with Senator Feinstein, the Committee and the Congress on addressing the renewable energy national priority.