What an Ohio agrivoltaics project says about rural solar stereotypes

Published on February 21, 2025

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. When solar developers look to build big projects on farmland, the same arguments tend to come up: The array will waste useful agricultural tracts, ruin views, and sully the pastoral character of the rural…

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Chart: GOP districts to lose big if Trump halts clean energy factories

February 21, 2025
See more from Canary Media's chart of the week column . Cleantech companies have announced a whopping $129 billion worth of clean energy factory plans since August 2022, when former President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, according to new data from E2, a nonpartisan group of business leaders and…

The facts of climate progress are the antidote to pessimism

February 21, 2025
This is the first instalment of a new monthly column by Rick Smith, president of the Canadian Climate Institute. The news cycle out of the United States can feel particularly chaotic and overwhelming lately. Almost daily, Canadians are faced with an onslaught of concerning developments south of the border on a variety of important issues. And when it comes to climate change, this news can seem uni