'What Corruption Gets You': How Utility Companies Bought Support in the Black South

Former Florida state Rep. Joe Gibbons sat in the library of the Faith Community Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, trying to convince its pastor to quit promoting rooftop solar. With a lobbyist’s charm, Gibbons told the Rev. Nelson Johnson that rooftop solar, which allows customers to generate their own renewable electricity, was bad for people […] The post ‘What Corruption Gets You’: How Utility Companies Bought Support in the Black South appeared first on Capital B News.

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