Ivanpah Solar Plant Under Fire: Bird Deaths and Daily Gas Burns Challenge Its 'Green' Label

An Obama-era taxpayer-backed solar plant in the Mojave Desert continues to burn natural gas to start up daily and emits about 25,000–30,000 metric tons of CO2 annually, while federal monitoring links thousands of bird deaths to concentrated solar beams and notes wildlife disruption, raising questions about the true environmental cost of the project and its continued operation despite $1.6B in federal loans and a $539M grant.