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PostJune 8, 2017

Hard-nosed business decisions trump ideologies

Have you noticed that many deep red states are homes to record-breaking renewable investments?  Read Renewable Energy Push Is Strongest in the Reddest States to see how conservative investors and politicians are setting aside ideologies and looking for big returns on renewables, particularly wind.  Political alliances between unlikely partners - think Wyoming with its huge coal reserves and California - are rapidly become the unspoken norm.  It seems to me that some valuable lessons for how and what we need to be doing in the coming years to respond to the climate emergency are available in these stories.

by Dave Damm-Luhr
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