Law360, New York (June 22, 2015, 10:28 AM EDT) -- Proponents of traditional energy projects on federal public lands — mines, pipelines, transmission lines and so on — have long experienced the near-certainty of litigation over whether government land managers have properly reviewed their projects as federal law requires. Private developers of utility-scale solar and wind power generation facilities on Bureau of Land Management and other federal lands frequently encounter the same fate. The BLM has approved 31 such projects since 2010. Yet entrepreneurs have often seen project financing collapse post-approval amid lawsuits by environmental advocacy groups and, increasingly, Indian tribes determined to protect places they consider cultural important or sacred....