Stop geothermal leasing on Carson City public lands

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

Nevada public lands face industrial geothermal development with limited ability to reverse leasing decisions once made.

Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.

In the agency’s own words

The purpose of the Proposed Action is to lease lands for development of geothermal resources where appropriate, consistent with the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, the Federal Geothermal Leasing Reform Act of 1987, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and related executive orders, in a manner that will promote use of clean technology and prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of public lands, resources, and uses. Geothermal leasing is also consistent with BLM’s multiple-use and sustained-yield mandate under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) as amended. Lands eligible for geothermal leasing for…

BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-NV-C000-2026-0001-EA ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Nevada

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Nevada, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Center for Biological Diversity

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada: Sued the Bureau of Land Management in March 2024 for failing to produce the legally required management plan for Gold Butte National Monument.

• Conservation Lands Foundation

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, Nevada: Backed the Honor Avi Kwa Ame designation campaign alongside the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and keeps the monument in its National Conservation Lands defense portfolio.

• Friends of Nevada Wilderness

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada: Ran the petition campaign pressing Nevada officials to pull Gold Butte from the Interior Department's monument review and has defended the monument since the designation fight, which drew over 90,000 supportive comments.

• Tahoe Rim Trail Association

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Nevada: Nevada is one of the 2 states they work in.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.

In court on this ground

No court case we track is over Sierra Front Field Office and Stillwater Field Office.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.