Brian Moore on WNC, now our Climate Story of the Week, which we're doing every Tuesday on the show, again all this year.

Today Elizabeth Weiss from USA Today, who's got a series that comes to the following star conclusion in this headline.

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built.

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned

faster than they're being built. Let's find out where and why and who's

foreign against and what it means for the world. So with us now is Elizabeth Weese who has long

covered science and technology and for the last two years has been focusing on

climate change and the energy transition. Elizabeth thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC.

Yeah, you're so welcome.

Let's define some terms to start out.

What falls under the category in that headline of clean energy plans.

Okay, so here, what we were looking at specifically was utility scale.

So this is not rooftop solar and this isn't even utility

scale solar which is a like a small block or two solar array this is something big enough that it can take the place of power plant.

So utility scale, wind and solar. And in the United States, we have definitions of clean vary depending on who you are, but carbon neutral energy includes hydroelectric power and nuclear power,

a little bit of biomass, but nuclear and hydro

are not going to grow significantly in the coming years.

So really, if we want to reach our targets

of 100% clean energy by 2035 we have to build out

more utility scale wind and solar so that's what we looked at.

Wind and solar and you just mentioned some of the context there, which is that the US set a goal of 100% clean energy,

that is I guess clean energy driving power plants, by 2035, and that is a goal that depends on building large

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