Mississippi regulators to solar boosters: Sit down and be quiet

State utility regulators have increasingly placed barriers to development of the renewable energy source in one of the sunniest states in the U.S.

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"We ruined this place fair and square, and by God we're not about to fix it now."

-Mississippi
- And yet they are worried about declining birth rates when there was just another study proving the link between air pollution and male infertility.
It's just so weird to get so upset about solar that you have tshirts and signs made to protest. Even if I don't agree with it, I can at least understand the angle most protestors are coming from. But this? What's to get so mad about solar?
- It doesn't seem to be what's happening here, but I've seen wooded areas clear cut for large scale solar farms before. That's completely missing the point of green energy IMO and I can see why some would oppose it.
  
  Here in Massachusetts they’ve installed panels in all sorts of otherwise unusable space, including:
  
  capped garbage dumps & transfer stations
  
  Along the sides of highways
  
  inside highway clover leafs