How ‘green energy’ is threatening biodiversity, human health, and environmental justice: An example from the Mojave Desert, California

References

• Anastas, P. T., & Zimmerman, J. B. (2006). The twelve principles of green engineering as a foundation for sustainability. InSustainability Science and Engineering. Jan 1. (1). 11–20. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1871-2711(06)80009-7.
   Google Scholar
• André, J., & Hughson, D. (2009). Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center: An Interview with Director Dr Jim André. Mojave National Preserve: Science Newsletter, 7, 1–6. https://www.nps.gov/moja/learn/nature/upload/200911science.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Antelope Valley air quality management district, Antelope Valley community air monitoring proposal, 2018, available online: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-05/AVAQMD%20Community%20Air%20Monitoring%20Proposal%2004302018.pdf#:~:text=The%20incidence%20rate%20of%20Valley%20Fever%20in%20the,to%20be%2062%20cases%20per%20100%2C000%20in%20population4 (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Aratina Solar Project. Draft Environmental Impact Report. Volume 1. Appendix D-3, available online: Draft Environmental Impact Report, SCH #2021020513 (kern.Ca.us) (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Avantus. The clean energy age is here, available online: The clean energy age is here | Avantus | Avantus. accessed on 25 November. 2022. https://avantus.com/
   Google Scholar
• Bakersfield, C., Q&A: Lorelei Oviatt, Kern County’s number one planner, tells us the future, by Sam Morgen, available online: https://www.bakersfield.com/news/q-a-lorelei-oviatt-kern-countys-number-one-planner-tells-us-the-future/article_93ccf712-8c6f-11e8-8602-335668c35ce3.html (accessed on 23 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Baptista-Rosas, R. C., Catalan Dibene, J., Romero-Olivares, A. L., Hinojosa, A., Cavazos, T., & Riquelme, M. (2012). Molecular detection of Coccidioides spp. from environmental samples in Baja California: Linking Valley Fever to soil and climate conditions. Fungal Ecology, 5(2), 177–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2011.08.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baptista-Rosas, R. C., Hinojosa, A., & Riquelme, M. (2007). Ecological niche modeling of Coccidioides spp. in western North American deserts. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1111(1), 35–46. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1406.003
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Barth, M. 2021. Solar Farm Uses Twenty Million Gallons of Water in Two Months, The Nevada Globe, November 28, 2021, available online: https://thenevadaglobe.com/governor/solar-farm-uses-twenty-million-gallons-of-water-in-two-months/ (accessed on 26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Basin & Range Watch, 2021, available online: https://www.basinandrangewatch.org/ (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Beatty, B., Macknick, J., McCall, J., Braus, G., & Buckner, D. 2017. Native vegetation performance under a solar PV array at the National Wind Technology Center. National Renewable Energy Lab. https://doi.org/10.2172/1357887
   Google Scholar
• Benson, D. A., Karsch-Mizrachi, I., Lipman, D. J., Ostell, J., & Sayers, E. W. N. A. R. (2010). GenBank. Nucleic Acids Research, 39(suppl_1), D32–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq1079
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Biggs, N. B., Shivaram, R., Lacarieri, E. A., Varkey, K., Hagan, D., Young, H., & Lambin, E. F. (2022). Landowner decisions regarding utility-scale solar energy on working lands: A qualitative case study in California. Environmental Research Communications, 4(5), 055010. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ac6fbf
   Google Scholar
• Binkley, J. Joshua trees are first plant to get California protections because of climate change, Cronkite News, December 21, 2021, available online: https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2021/12/21/joshua-trees-california-protections-climate-change/ (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Bureau of Land Management, Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, 2016, available online: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/plans-in-development/california/desert-renewable-energy-conservation-plan (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California Air Resources Board. Air Quality Data Query Tool, available online: https://www.arb.ca.gov/aqmis2/aqdselect.php (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California Air Resources Board. Ambient Air Quality Standards, available online: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/aaqs2.pdf (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California center and the center for jobs and human capital, an economic road map for Kern County, 2015, available online: An-Economic-Road-Map-for-Kern-County.pdfresearchgate.net (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California Department of Public Health. Epidemiologic Summary of Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) in California, 2019, available online: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/VFEpiSum2019Dashboard.aspx (accessed on 27 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California Department of Public Health. Environmental Health Investigations Branch. California Asthma Dashboard, available online: California Breathing County Asthma Data Tool (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California Department of Public Health. Open Data. Infectious disease by county, year and sex, coccidioidomycosis, available online: https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/infectious-disease/resource/75019f89-b349-4d5e-825d-8b5960fc028c?view_id=2918b111-99e2-426d-987d-68d8155c64fa&filters=Disease%3ACoccidioidomycosis (Accessed 25 November. 2022)
   Google Scholar
• California Energy Commission. Tracking Progress: Renewable Energy Overview. Dec. 2017, available online: http://www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/tracking_progress/documents/renewable.pdf (accessed on 26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• California energy commission, renewables portfolio standard, 2020 – RPS, available online: Renewables Portfolio Standard - RPS | California energy commission (accessed on 26 November. 2022a).
   Google Scholar
• Carlton, J. Solar power’s land grab hits a snag: Environmentalists, The Wall Street Journal, June 4. 2021, available online: https://www.wsj.com/articles/solar-powers-land-grab-hits-a-snag-environmentalists-11622816381 (accessed26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Census Reporter. Boron, Ca, available online: https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0607568-boron-ca/ (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Center for Biological Diversity, Commission Votes Wednesday on Protecting California’s Joshua Trees as Threatened Species, June 14 , 2022, available online: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/commission-votes-wednesday-on-protecting-californias-joshua-trees-as-endangered-species-2022-06-14/, see also: https://cal-span.org/static/index.php (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Center for Biological Diversity, The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), 2016, available online: DRECP draft desert renewable energy conservation plan executive summary (biologicaldiversity.Org), and map of the draft plan (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• City-Data.com. Boron, California (CA) Poverty Rate Data, available online: https://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Boron-California.html (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Colson, A. J., Vredenburgh, L., Guevara, R. E., Rangel, N. P., Kloock, C. T., & Lauer, A. (2017). Large-scale land development, fugitive dust, and increased coccidioidomycosis incidence in the Antelope Valley of California, 1999–2014. Mycopathologia, 182, 439–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-016-0105-5
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Conservation Biology Institute. 2010. Recommendations of independent science advisors for the California desert renewable energy conservation plan (DRECP). CBI. (6 July. 2011), available online: www.energy.ca.gov/2010publications/DRECP-1000-2010-008/DRECP-1000-2010-008-F.PDF) (accessed on 26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• County of San Bernardino Land Use Services Division, County of San Bernardino. 2007 General Plan, available online: http://www.sbcounty.gov/Uploads/lus/GeneralPlan/FINALGP.pdf (accessed on 26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Cox, J. Kern launches California’s first carbon capture project review, Bakersfield.Com, March4, 2022a, available online:https://www.bakersfield.com/news/kern-launches-californias-first-carbon-capture-project-review/article_31d59272-9c0f-11ec-b04f-c303e9b8f26d.html
   Google Scholar
• Cox, J. accessed on 26 November. 2022b. Next-generation solar project proposed in eastern Kern, Bakersfield.Com, Jan 11th 2022, available online: Next-generation solar project proposed in eastern Kern | News | bakersfield.Com.
   Google Scholar
• Cox, J. (accessed on 26 November. 2022c. Work starts on 100-megawatt solar project in eastern Kern, Tehachapi News, 01/08/2022, available online: Work starts on 100-megawatt solar project in eastern Kern | News | tehachapinews.Com.
   Google Scholar
• Das, R., McNary, J., Fitzsimmons, K., Dobraca, D., Cummings, K., Mohle-Boetani, J., Wheeler, C., McDowell, A., Iossifova, Y., Bailey, R., Kreiss, K., & Materna, B. Occupational coccidioidomycosis in California: Outbreak investigation, respirator recommendations, and surveillance findings. (2012). Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1(5), 564–571. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45010090. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182480556
   Google Scholar
• Data USA. Boron, CA, available online: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/boron-ca/ (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Daubenmire, R. F. (1938). Merriam’s life zones of North America. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 13(3), 327–332. https://doi.org/10.1086/394564
   Google Scholar
• Department of Industrial Relations. 2017. Cal/OSHA Cites Six Employers over $240,000 for exposing workers to valley fever, news release No.: 2017-108, November 20th, 2017, available online: https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2017/2017-108.pdf accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Durant, S. M., Pettorelli, N., Bashir, S., Woodroffe, R., Wacher, T., De Ornellas, P., Ransom, C., Abáigar, T., Abdelgadir, M., El Alqamy, H., Beddiaf, M., Belbachir, F., Belbachir-Bazi, A., Berbash, A. A., Beudels-Jamar, R., Boitani, L., Breitenmoser, C., Cano, M., Chardonnet, P. … Baillie, J. E. M. (2012). Forgotten biodiversity in desert ecosystems. Science, 336(6087), 1379–1380. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.336.6087.1379
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elconin, A. F., Egeberg, R. O., & Egeberg, M. C. (1964). Significance of soil salinity on the ecology of Coccidioides immitis. Journal of Bacteriology, 87(3), 500–503. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.87.3.500-503.1964
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elliott, C. Threatened status of Western Joshua tree to be considered by Fish and Game Commission, October 8 , 2022, available online: https://www.bakersfield.com/news/threatened-status-of-western-joshua-tree-to-be-considered-by-fish-and-game-commission/article_46371ba0-4669-11ed-823d-f3bfee4c4117.html (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Fisher, F. S., Bultman, M. W., Johnson, S. M., Pappagianis, D., & Zaborsky, E. (2007). Coccidioides niches and habitat parameters in the southwestern United States: A matter of scale. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1111(1), 47–72. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1406.031
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Galgiani, J. N., Ampel, N. M., Blair, J. E., Catanzaro, A., Johnson, R. H., Stevens, D. A., & Williams, P. L. (2005). Coccidioidomycosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 41(9), 1217–1223. https://doi.org/10.1086/496991
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Galgiani, J. N., Shubitz, L. F., Orbach, M. J., Mandel, M. A., Powell, D. A., Klein, B. S., Robb, E. J., Ohkura, M., Seka, D. J., Tomasiak, T. M., & Monath, T. P. Vaccines to Prevent Coccidioidomycosis: A gene-deletion mutant of Coccidioides Posadasii as a Viable Candidate for Human Trials. (2022). Journal of Fungi, 8(8), 838. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8080838. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8080838
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gibson, L., Wilman, E. N., & Laurance, W. F. (2017). How green is ‘green’ energy? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32(12), 922–935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.007
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, 2040 General plan, guidelines for Chapter 4: Environmental Justice, 2017, available online: General Plan Guidelines Chapter 4: Environmental Justice Element (ca.Gov) (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Guevara, R. E., Motala, T., Terashita, D., & Chaturvedi, V. (2015). The changing epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis in Los Angeles (LA) County, California, 1973–2011. PLoS One, 10(8), e0136753. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136753
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hardin, E., AghaKouchak, A., Qomi, M. J. A., Madani, K., Tarroja, B., Zhou, Y., Yang, T., & Samuelsen, S. (2017). California drought increases CO2 footprint of energy. Sustainability Cities Society, 28, 450–452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.09.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Head, J. R., Sondermeyer-Cooksey, G., Heaney, A. K., Alexander, T. Y., Jones Bhattachan, A., Campo, S. K., Campo, Wagner, R., Mgbara, Mgbara, W., Keeney, S., Keeney, N., Eisen, E., Lettenmaier, D. P., Hubbard, A., Okin, G. S., Vugia, D. J., Jain, S., & Remais, J. V. (2022, Oct). Effects of precipitation, heat, and drought on incidence and expansion of coccidioidomycosis in western USA: A longitudinal surveillance study. Lancet Planet Health, 6, e793–803. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00202-9 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00202-9
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Hector, R. F., Rutherford, G. W., Tsang, C. A., Erhart, L. M., McCotter, O., Anderson, S. M., Komatsu, K., Tabnak, F., Vugia, D. J., Yang, Y., & Galgiani, J. N. The public health impact of coccidioidomycosis in Arizona and California. (2011). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8(4), 1150–1173. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph8041150. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph8041150
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heliogen. Decarbonizing industry with concentrated sunlight, available online: Heliogen – Replacing Fossil Fuels with Concentrated Sunlight (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Hernandez, R. R., Easter, S. B., Murphy-Mariscal, M. L., Maestre, F. T., Tavassoli, M., Allen, E. B., Barrows, C. W., Belnap, J., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Ravi, S., & Allen, M. F. (2017). Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy. Renew Sustainable, 29, 766–779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.041
   Google Scholar
• Huckabone, S. E., Gulland, F. M., Johnson, S. M., Colegrove, K. M., Dodd, E. M., Pappagianis, D., Dunkin, R. C., Casper, D., Carlson, E. L., Sykes, J. E., Meyer, W., & Miller, M. A. (2015). Coccidioidomycosis and other systemic mycoses of marine mammals stranding along the central California, USA coast: 1998–2012. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51(2), 295–308. https://doi.org/10.7589/2014-06-143
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. Available online: https://www.iucnredlist.org (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Johnson, S. M., Carlson, E. L., Fisher, F. S., & Pappagianis, D. (2014). Demonstration of Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii DNA in soil samples collected from Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. Medical Mycology, 52(6), 610–617. https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myu004
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kern County, C. A. accessed on 26 November. 2022a. 2017-2020 County of Kern strategic goals, available online: 2017-2020 County of Kern Strategic Goals (kerncounty.Com).
   Google Scholar
• Kern County, C. A., Kern 2040, Kern County General Plan Update, available online: https://kern2040.com/ (accessed on 26 November. 2022b).
   Google Scholar
• Kern County, C. A., Kern Economic Development Corporation (Kern EDC), Strategic Plan 2020 -2023, available online: https://kernedc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Kern-EDC-Strategic-Plan-2020-2023.pdf (accessed on26 November. 2022c).
   Google Scholar
• Kern County Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Environmental Documents, 2022c, available online: https://psbweb.co.kern.ca.us/UtilityPages/Planning/EIRS/aratina_solar/DEIR/Aratina%20Solar%20DEIR%20Vol%201%20Chapters%201-10.pdf (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Kern County Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Environmental Documents, 2022, available online: Environmental Documents - Kern County Planning & Natural Resources Dept. (kernplanning.com) (accessed 25 November. 2022d)
   Google Scholar
• Kern County Energy Summit, 2018 and 2021, available online: Lorelei Oviatt- California Dreaming: Kern’s the Place! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z5VRwgaMKU (accessed on 25 November. 2022e).
   Google Scholar
• Kern County Public Health. What is Valley Fever. Number of Cases and Incidence by Year, available online: https://kernpublichealth.com/valley-fever/ (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Kern Public Health, Community Health Assessment and Improvement Plan, 2018-2019, available online: https://kernpublichealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/KCPHSD-Community-Health-Assessment-and-Improvement-Plan-2018.2019.pdf (accessed on 26 November. 2022)
   Google Scholar
• Kirkland, T. N., & Fierer, J. (1996). Coccidioidomycosis: A reemerging infectious disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2(3), 192. http://doi.org/10.3201/eid0203.960305
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kristinof, R. E.; Collingwood, B. Challenges and opportunities in solar farm construction. 13th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics – Acosta-Martinez & Lehane(Eds.), 2019, Australian Geomechanics Society, Sydney, Australia
   Google Scholar
• Lauer, A. (2017). Coccidioidomycosis: Increasing incidence of an “orphan” disease in response to environmental changes. In Christon J. Hurst. (Ed.), Modeling the Transmission and Prevention of Infectious Disease (pp. 151–185). Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Lauer, A., Etyemezian, V., Nikolich, G., Kloock, C., Arzate, A. F., Sadiq Batcha, F., Kaur, M., Garcia, E., Mander, J., & Kayes Passaglia, A. Valley fever: Environmental risk factors and exposure pathways deduced from field measurements in California. (2020). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), 5285. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155285. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155285
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lauer, A., Palmer, L., Kloock, C., Liwanag, H. E., Norris, T., McDonald, B., Muñoz, J. M., Mulcahy, C., Hannah, S., & Johnson, S. (2019). Survey for Coccidioides Antibodies in blood Sera from California Sea Lions and Northern Fur Seals that Stranded Along the Coast of California (2013–2015). Western Wildlife, 69.
   Google Scholar
• Leal, J. (2020). Oppose the Aratina solar project, available online: Petition · Oppose the Aratina solar project · Change.Org. accessed on 26 November 2022.
   Google Scholar
• LeGrand, S. L., Letcher, T. W., Okin, G. S., Webb, N. P., Gallagher, A. R., Dhital, S., Hodgdon, T. S., Ziegler, N. P., & Michaels, M. L. Application of a Satellite-Retrieved Sheltering Parameterization (v1. 0) for Dust Event Simulation with WRF-Chem v4. 1Discuss. Geoscience Model Dev2022Geoscience Model Dev2022, 7, 1–47. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-157
   Google Scholar
• Levenda, A. M., Behrsin, I., & Disano, F. (2021b Jan 1). Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies. Energy Research & Social Science, 71, 101837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101837/
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levenda, A. M., Behrsin, I., & Disano, F. (2021a). Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies. Energy Research & Social Science, 71, 101837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101837
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• LMernit, J. (2022). Free shipping isn’t free. The Sierra Club Magazine, 107, 36–37.
   Google Scholar
• Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Supplement to Community Health Assessment Service Planning Area 1: Antelope Valley, 2014, available online: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/plan/docs/SPA1Supplement.pdf (accessed on 23 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, Significant Ecological Areas Program, Chen, C., available online: Joshua trees gain endangered species protections – Significant Ecological Areas Program (lacounty.Gov) (accessed on 26 November. 2020).
   Google Scholar
• Los Angeles County of Regional Planning. Los Angeles County General Plan. 2035, available online: https://planning.lacounty.gov/generalplan (accessed on 26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Louie, L., Ng, S., Hajjeh, R., Johnson, R., Vugia, D., Werner, S. B., Talbot, R., & Klitz, W. (1999). Influence of host genetics on the severity of coccidioidomycosis. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 5(5), 672. http://doi.org/10.3201/eid0505.990508
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lovich, J. E., & Ennen, J. R. (2011). Wildlife conservation and solar energy development in the desert southwest, United States. BioScience, 61(12), 982–992. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.12.8
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Macknick, J., Beatty, B., & Hill, G. (2013). Overview of opportunities for co-location of solar energy technologies and vegetation (No. NREL/TP-6A20-60240). National Renewable Energy Lab.
   Google Scholar
• Madden, J. 2021. Joshua trees found cut down near Tehachapi, 23ABC In-Depth, September 28th, 2021, available online: https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/joshua-trees-found-cut-down-near-tehachapi (accessed on 26 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Mark, J. 2021, A couple bulldozed 36 Joshua trees to build a home. Now they face an $18,000 fine, the Washington Post, July 1st, 2021, available online: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/01/california-bulldoze-joshua-tree accessed on 26 November 2022
   Google Scholar
• Market Assessment, B. 3. K., Market Assessment Data Book and Findings, updated March. 2021, available online: https://b3kprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/B3K-Market-Assessment-FINAL_031821-3.pdf (accessed on 27 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, 2017, Dust Control Plan Approval Requirements, September, available online: https://www.mdaqmd.ca.gov/home/showdocument?id=2435 (accessed 27 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Mojave Desert Land Trust. Protecting the California desert, available online: https://www.mdlt.org/ (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Mojave Desert Resource Conservation District. Web site sponsored by: United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service and Environmental Quality Incentives Program, available online: https://www.mojavedesertrcd.org/ (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Mulvaney, D. (2). Opening the black box of solar energy technologies: Exploring tensions between innovation and environmental justice. Science as Culture, 2013 Jun 122(). 230–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2013.786995
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• National Park Service. Digital Desert: Mojave Desert, available online: http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/endangered.html (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Orr, P. (2021). Mojave Desert News, Kern County Board of Supervisors Approve Aratina Solar Farm Boron/Desert. Lake Residents raise concerns over project; available online.
   Google Scholar
• Planning and natural resources department of Kern County, leading the way in renewable energy projects, 2016, available online: https://psbweb.co.kern.ca.us/planning/pdfs/renewable/MasterKernSolarProjectsList.pdf (accessed on 23 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• PV Magazine, 8 minute, Capital Dynamics complete the massive Springbok project in Kern County, 2019, available online:8minuteCapitalDynamicscompletethemassiveSpringbokprojectinKernCounty–pvmagazineUSApv-magazine-usa.comaccessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Randall, J. M.; Parker, S. S.; Moore, J.; Cohen, B.; Crane, L.; Christian, B.; Cameron, D.; MacKenzie, J. B.; Klausmeyer, K.; Morrison, S. M. D. E. A., 1 Nov 2010, available online: https://www.scienceforconservation.org/products/mojave-desert-ecoregional-assessment (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Riddell, E. A., Iknayan, K. J., Hargrove, L., Tremor, S., Patton, J. L., Ramirez, R., Wolf, B. O., & Beissinger, S. R. (2021). Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities. Science, 371(6529), 633–636. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd46
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saubolle, M. A., McKellar, P. P., & Sussland, D. (2007). Epidemiologic, clinical, and diagnostic aspects of coccidioidomycosis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 45(1), 26–30. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02230-06
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schwartz, B.; Terashita, D. Increased Coccidioidomycosis (“Valley Fever”) in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County, PX for Prevention, 2017, available online at: http://rx.ph.lacounty.gov/RxCocci0717
   Google Scholar
• Sirchia, F.; Hoffmann, S.; Wilkening, J. Joshua Tree Species Status Assessment. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, July 20, 2018, available online: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer-Wilkening/publication/335600680_Joshua_Tree_Species_Status_Assessment/links/5d6f3f02299bf16522f32097/Joshua-Tree-Species-Status-Assessment.pdf (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Sokolova, D. Complaint filed over dust at solar project in Amargosa Valley, Pahrump Valley Times, September 27, 2019, available online: https://pvtimes.com/tonopah/complaint-filed-over-dust-at-solar-project-in-amargosa-valley-75678/ (accessed on 26 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Major Solar Projects List, available online: Major Solar Projects List | SEIA (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Sondermeyer, G.; Lee, L.; Gilliss, D.; Tabnak, F.; Vugia, D. Coccidioidomycosis-associated hospitalizations, California, USA, 2000–2011. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 2013 19, 1590. http://doi.org/10.3201/eid1910.130427]
   Google Scholar
• Sprigg, W. A., Nickovic, S., Galgiani, J. N., Pejanovic, G., Petkovic, S., Vujadinovic, M., Vukovic, A., Dacic, M., DiBiase, S., Prasad, A., & El-Askary, H. (2014). Regional dust storm modeling for health services: The case of valley fever. Aeolian Research, 14, 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.03.001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stringfellow, K. 2017. Shifting Dust: Development and Demographics in Antelope Valley, the Mojave Project, December, 2017, available online: https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/shifting-dust-development-and-demographics-in-antelope-valley/ (accessed on 23 November 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Thompson Iii, G. R., & Chiller, T. M. Endemic Mycoses: Underdiagnosed and Underreported. (2022). Annals of Internal Medicine, 175(12), 1759–1760. https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-2371. https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-2371
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• United Stated Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Services. Web Soil Survey, 2019, available online: https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• United States Census Bureau. Quick Facts. available online: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA,US/PST045221 (accessed on 25 November. 2022).
   Google Scholar
• Urban, F. E., Goldstein, H. L., Fulton, R., & Reynolds, R. L. (2018). Unseen dust emission and global dust abundance: Documenting dust emission from the Mojave Desert (USA) by daily remote camera imagery and wind‐erosion measurements. Journal of Geophysical Resources Atmospheres, 123(16), 8735–8753. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028466
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilkening, J., Kobelt, L., & Pereira, T. J. (2021). Climate change vulnerability assessment of imperiled plants in the Mojave Desert. In Kumar, S. (Ed.), Endangered Plants (pp. 151–168). IntechOpen.
   Google Scholar
• Wilson, L., Ting, J., Lin, H., Shah, R., MacLean, M., Peterson, M. W., Stockamp, N., Libke, R., & Brown, P. The rise of valley fever: Prevalence and cost burden of coccidioidomycosis infection in California. (2019). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(7), 1113. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071113. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071113
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang, N., Zheng, J., Song, G., & Zhao, H. (2022). Regional comprehensive environmental impact assessment of renewable energy system in California. Journal of Cleaner Production, 26, 134349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134349
   Google Scholar