A Turn in Taxpayers’ Favor
The USDA finally acted with some common sense: It finally pulled the plug on federal subsidies for solar farms planted on prime farmland. It is simply a line item read in a press release; it was a long-overdue course correction.
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Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins alongside Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Bill Hagerty, Representative John Rose, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden, announced USDA will no longer fund taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland or allow solar panels manufactured by foreign adversaries to be used in USDA projects. Subsidized solar farms have made it more difficult for farmers to access farmland by making
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