"Every time I'd fly across the state, I'd look down from the plane and see large areas that had been impacted by prior economic uses, like mining, landfills, sand and gravel operations, and brownfields," said John Zablocki, southern Nevada conservation director for the Nature Conservancy. "I'd think to myself, ‘why not put solar development there? Or at least put as much of it as we can there. Who could argue with that?'" To answer that question, the Nature Conservancy partnered with the University of Virginia Law School to identify what legal, financial, and other barriers might explain why d...