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Rural residents across Wisconsin and the greater United States are grappling with how to respond to solar projects that are increasingly being built around their communities. Some fear that solar projects will feel like an industrial wasteland that is incompatible with farmland and agrarian communities.

By Kayla Rinderknecht, Population Health Service Fellow & Dr. Paul Mathewson, Science Program Director   From the air we breathe to the water we drink, environmental factors directly influence our health. Yet, too often, the connection between a clean environment and public well-being is overlooked.

Close coal and start up solar and storage Wisconsin utilities We Energies and Alliant argue that retiring coal power plants must be replaced with methane gas generation, but a cleaner, more innovative path is possible.