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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 administration's push for a zero-carbon economy.
Kansas City-based Savion is seeking approval to build an 800-megawatt solar farm and a 300-megawatt energy storage system along State Route 29.
The resolution states that Chestnut Solar's proposed facility in Pleasant Township is incompatible with Marion County's Land Use Plan adopted in 2012.