Clean energy bans skyrocket under Trump, USA TODAY analysis finds
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It's getting hard to build wind and solar farms across America, a USA TODAY investigation shows, although they can boost the local economy.
TOPEKA, Kansas – After wind turbines came to Ford County in 2006, the roads got fixed, schools were rebuilt and for the first time in decades, dozens of new houses were constructed.
“We just added another crop,” said Deloyce McKee, 76, whose family has farmed and ranched in Ford County since at least 1910. “We still grow wheat, we still have cattle. The wind towers do not take away the value of the ground.”
The money from the county’s more than 300 turbines has spurred new housing and helped fill seats at local eateries like the Windmill Restaurant and the Spearville Turbine Bar & Grill. The area's two Best Western hotels have seen a surge of stays, often from wind farm maintenance technicians.
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“People say they’re ugly – but when you drive down from Dodge City, it’s just like watching tumbleweeds in the sky,” McKee said of the wind farm, Spearville Wind, whose towers produce enough electricity to power as many as 200,000 homes.
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