The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

  • @[email protected]English
    36•5 months ago

    Are you kidding me? I opened the article in order to find reasons for banning but after like reading 10min, I gave up, it is such a repetitive article with so many useless words… Has someone a TLDR?

    • @SuddenDownpourEnglish
      37•5 months ago

      Former President Donald Trump often denigrates wind and solar power in his speeches. In December in New Hampshire, he said, falsely, that wind farms only last 10 years, that they kill “all the birds,” that solar energy isn’t powerful enough to run factories and that wind is 42 times more expensive than natural gas.

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      “It’s going to change our lifestyle and the landscape and everything around here,” he said.

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      The opposition sometimes leads to surprising arguments about property rights, in which some landowners invoke concepts like a claim to a “viewshed” – views they want free of wind turbines or solar panels. These opponents clash with others who champion a different view of private property rights, saying landowners should be free to build what they want.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•5 months ago

        Ok. I want to be free of sky scrapers. Ban them. Remind me again why my opinion about this doesn’t matter.

        • @fruitycoderEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          A lot of places do have limits like that. Plus style choices in the building codes.