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Solar Power Depletes Farmlands Rich Soil by the Institute for Energy Research

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Solar energy is depleting farmlands of their rich soils in the U.S. Midwest. The solar industry is moving into the U.S. Midwest, drawn by cheaper land rents, access to electric transmission, massive federal and state incentives, and the region’s wide-open fields. But Biden’s renewable energy boom risks damaging some of America’s richest soils in key farming states like Indiana....



Jun 2

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