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: Innovative Private Sector Partnership will Position Army as a Leader in Generating Renewable Energy Sources FORT IRWIN, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Clark Energy Group in partnership with the Department of the Army and Acciona Solar Power today celebrated the launch of the largest solar energy project in Department of Defense history with the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement for an Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) at Fort Irwin in California. Clark and Acciona Solar Power were...

Fort Irwin's Battle Between Unexploded Ordnance and Training Excellence DUSSELDORF, Germany, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. subsidiary, American Rheinmetall Munitions, is pleased to announce partial integration of Mk281 "green ammunition" at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California. The U.S. Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland has given the Non-Dud Producing Mk281 a stamp of approval. Mk281 does not...

By Abby Sewell, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif. Jun. 25--BARSTOW -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed Monday to consider new protections for the habitat of a rare plant that grows only in the Mojave Desert in and around Fort Irwin. The Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit environmental advocacy group, sued the Fish and Wildlife Service in an attempt to make the department reconsider an April 2005 decision not to designate any critical habitat for the Lane Mountain...

Conservationists are upset over the moving of the desert tortoise, the Mojave Desert's flagship species, to make room for tank training at the Army's Fort Irwin.The project involves transferring 770 endangered reptiles from Army land to a dozen public plots overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in what is being called the largest desert tortoise move in California history.The army needs an extra 131,000 acres to accommodate faster tanks and longer-range weapons used each month to...