By Elizabeth Weise, Stephen J. Beard, Suhail Bhat, Ramon Padilla,Carlie Procell, Karina Zaiets for USA Today, February 4, 2024.
The U.S. has set a goal to reach 100% clean energy by 2035, but a nationwide analysis by USA TODAY shows that achieving it is increasingly unlikely – local governments are banning green power faster than they’re building it.
At least 15% of counties in the U.S. have effectively halted new utility-scale wind, solar, or both, USA TODAY found. These are not the solar panels you might have on your house but installations significant enough to replace power plants, each one powering tens of thousands of homes.
The limits come in the form of outright bans, moratoriums, construction impediments and other conditions that make green energy difficult to build.
The opposition to renewable energy isn’t as simple as left vs. right. There’s no one group fighting renewables. Instead, there are many, with a range of objections. But the overall result is rapidly increasing the limits on clean energy.
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Wind Concerns is a collaboration of citizens of the Lakeland Alberta region against proposed wind turbine projects.