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The American clean energy industry is primed for a boom. The only question is whether Washington can help juice the transition.

The American clean energy industry is primed for a boom. The only question is whether Washington can help juice the transition.

Big picture. >> reporter: and that may mean agreeing to be involved in the sue green link, $2.5 billion project to build underground transmission lines along rail lines and highways, cost effective due to tax credits in biden's plan. >> we have very ambitious climate goals. if you want more renewables you need more transmission. this has urgency about it that we haven't seen before. >> iowa is one of the country's leading states for generating wind energy. in the past, that energy was transmitted with above-ground power lines, like these. there were plans to krukt more towers to handle the inc...

Turbines can be transmitted ubdground and cheaper than in the past. one long extension cord running under ground transmitting and connecting green energy from minona, iowa, all the way to chicago, illinois, more than 200 miles away. a rail line runs right through meyer's land and gave sue green permission to dig although he susp suspects some of his neighbors might take issue with his decision. not because of the environmental impact but he says because of the politics surrounding it. >> oh, i'm sure there are some that are real shook up. >> reporter: shook up because? >> worried about the adm...

Repair crumbling roads and bridges, schools in need of repair, digital divide, high-speed internet. ef efforts to upgrade the nation's power grid. reporting from northern iowa in minona. >> reporter: did you ever want to do anything else or was farming -- >> no, no, that's been in my blood since i was 4 years old. >> reporter: for just about as long as brian meyer can remember, he has focused on the 2,000 acres of corn and soy beans he farms in minona, iowa. talk about his land and the push to get the country to go green under president biden's infrastructure proposal. >> slow down. don't shov...