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Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday, February 4th, 2024. With green energy now powering almost 40% of America's grid, the next few years will be critical.

As the need for a cleaner, more resilient power grid

intensifies due in large part to climate change,

there have been increasing efforts across the country

to block utility scale wind turbines and solar farms.

What or who is driving this resistance?

For a look at where green power projects are meeting resistance, we're joined now by USA Today, National Correspondent Elizabeth

Wies.

Thanks for being on the excerpt Elizabeth.

You're so welcome, happy to be here.

So you did a review of green energy policies nationwide. This has been more than a year long

project for you. Can you give us a big picture assessment of what the green energy policy

landscape looks like in America today.

Yeah, so as a country we have made a commitment to getting to 100% carbon neutral electricity by 2035.

That's 11 years away.

A carbon neutral doesn't just mean wind and solar.

It also includes nuclear, it includes hydral power,

burning biomass, which is pretty small.

So it's not just wind and solar,

but we really can't build out more nuclear

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