-E&E News, October 24, 2011 by Anne C. Mulkern
http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/rss/2011/10/24/10 (requires registration)
“Proposed projects on farmland tend to spur opposition from agricultural interests worried about the loss of productive farmland in the state, as well as from endangered species advocates concerned about the destruction of farms that provide critical habitat for endangered and threatened species,” said Ethan Elkind, one of the authors of the study.
-Los Angeles Law Schools Examiner, October 24, 2011 by Seth Chavez
http://www.examiner.com/law-schools-in-los-angeles/how-to-harvest-clean-energy-from-degraded-farmland-ucla-law-berkeley-law
“It’s important to strike a careful balance between demands for food and energy,” said report author Ethan Elkind, research fellow at UCLA Law and Berkeley Law. “The state needs to preserve its prime farmland yet actively develop these projects on appropriate sites to meet our state’s energy needs.”