It took a torturous three-year environmental review by state and federal authorities before Ivanpah received its license and the project is currently the subject of two lawsuits filed by an environmental organization and a Native American group over its impact on the imperiled desert tortoise and cultural artifacts.
The scale of human trafficking in the US is hard to gauge, but the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, operated by Polaris Project since December 2007, has received more than 57, 000 calls from every state in the union.