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Developer Roger Wittenburg and the hotel he wants to tear down. Photo credit: Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee

The city of Crystal Bay, Nevada, a quaint town on Lake Tahoe’s northern shore, has become the ideological battleground for local environmentalists: Can they really support the development of a behemoth new 16 acre, 300 room casino resort just because it’s ‘eco-friendly’? Despite the proposed resort’s claims that it would reduce the region’s carbon footprint and help lower sediment flow into the lake, opponents of the project site an increase in pollutio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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