An aerial view of Roseland Solar and Storage facility in Riesel, Texas. Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of a national wave of Trump-era opposition to clean energy. — Mason Trinca/The New York Times
AMERICA’s conservative states with a hands-off approach to development – Texas and Oklahoma chief among them – have become unlikely clean energy champions, powering ahead with vast wind and solar farms.
But that renewable energy boom is now under threat, and from within.
