This article is the second in a series on the underreported costs of solar power. The first examined how large-scale solar projects are using high-quality farmland across America. The Biden administration is considering a rule change that would discount costs for solar companies who want to use public lands. Meanwhile, biologists and activists are sounding the alarm about the dangers of large-scale solar projects for flora, fauna, and natural beauty throughout the country, especially in the deserts.  The solar land rush, Kevin Emmerich explained, first hit the desert under President Barack Obama. “He really wanted to put a lot of large-scale green energy on public lands,” said Emmerich, a former field biologist and National Park Service ranger, in an interview with The Epoch Times. He and his wife, field biologist and artist Laura Cunningham, soon realized that arid land in the United States’ southwestern deserts—particularly the Mojave Desert and the …