Environmentalists don’t know whether to applaud or scream at U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) proposal to create two new national monuments in the Mojave Desert. On the one hand, the legislation would preserve a million acres of desert terrain and prevent any kind of commercial development on the land. But that restriction would also include nixing more than a dozen solar power projects which California wants as part of its long-term renewable energy goals. In fact, backers of some of the solar farms are already giving up on their plans just from the mere introduction of Feinstein’s bill.