A suite of bills introduced in the state legislature last week aims to restrict wind and solar—despite their success.
“These bills will subsidize those dirty energy sources at a big cost to consumers and the environment,” Luke Metzger,
executive director at Environment Texas, told Earther in an email. “Folks at the Texas Legislature used to speak of the importance of not picking winners and losers in the energy marketplace. Well, that’s exactly what these bills do. The state of Texas is dispensing with the free market to subsidize polluting power plants and discriminating against wind and solar energy.”good.
ut we can count on Republicans to take any opportunity to use renewable energy as a political punching bag.
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