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Clean energy developers had planned a 75-turbine wind farm in mid-Michigan's Montcalm County before local voters shot down the idea in 2022 and recalled seven l

For Michigan to reach its energy goals, officials say they'll need to build up large solar and wind farms. To speed along the projects, they've changed who decides where those projects get built.

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Clean energy developers had planned a 75-turbine wind farm in mid-Michigan’s Montcalm County before local voters shot down the idea in 2022 and recalled seven local officials who had supported it. About 150 miles (240 kilometers) southeast, Clara Ostrander in Monroe County found herself at the center of a similar conflict […]

More than a dozen U.S. states have given themselves the power to override local zoning restrictions blocking large-scale renewable energy projects, in what...

Local rules restricting green energy facilities are ‘not really based on science,’ says one advocate of the projects.

More than a dozen states have given themselves the power to override local zoning restrictions that block large-scale renewable energy projects

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Clean energy developers had planned a 75-turbine wind farm in mid-Michigan’s Montcalm County before local voters shot down the idea in<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/states-with-big-climate-goals-strip-local-power-to-block-green-projects/">Read More</a>

Local officials say giving states the power to site large-scale energy projects clashes with cherished U.S. political principles.

Local restrictions in Michigan derailed more than two dozen utility-scale renewable energy projects as of last May, according to a study by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University