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To Block Solar Energy Projects, One Community Lumped Them in With Junkyards and Adult Bookstores

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Inside Climate News reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with Inside Climate News, which released it. In Montgomery County, Indiana, utility-scale solar projects appear on an official list of undesirable land uses that also includes “adult-oriented businesses.” So it wasn’t surprising that the county Board of Commissioners unanimously rejected a 200-megawatt solar project on Sept. 28. But it still stings for renewable energy advocates. It shows a huge challenge lurking right […] Original link: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08102026/inside-clean-energy-indiana-solar-energy-fight/

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