[ants_everywhere]

one of the current approaches is to turn communities against solar and wind projects on the grounds that it's racist or disturbs plant life etc. This has advocates of environmental justice, which is an important concern on its own, weaponized against building renewable energy.

Here's one example in Florida, but it is happening around the US https://www.eenews.net/articles/fla-solar-plans-stoke-fight-...

The net effect is a win for the fossil fuel industry and a weakened environmental movement.

[ceejayoz]

Some of these opposition groups come from the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-mount-vernon-frasier...

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinf...