Connie Ehrlich News Today

Grassroots resistance to the Biden administration’s ambitious push for a “zero-carbon” economy is coalescing in varied new state laws and local ordinances that threaten to bog down solar and wind development in a multi-front legal and regulatory war on a scale not seen before. 

Laws passed in Ohio and Kansas in 2021 and 2022, respectively, give stronger input to towns and villages that are often the target of well-heeled power companies seeking to use rural land to construct large-scale renewable energy projects. 

State and local laws, spurred by grassroots movements, are challenging the Biden administrations push for a zero-carbon economy.

U.S. solar power capacity has grown from just 0.34 GW in 2008 to as much as 97.2 GW today, and thanks to supportive policy, is set to grow even more in the coming years

A community turns on itself over the aptly named Mammoth solar project, a planned $1.5bn power field nearly the size of Manhattan

Two readers share their concerns about solar farms being installed in rural areas in Indiana.