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Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?

Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?

Update: 2024-07-30
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If Democrats care more about climate change than Republicans, then why is Texas the nation’s leader in renewable energy?


Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Jesse Jenkins, an assistant professor at Princeton University, about how the Lone Star State emerged as America’s No. 1 renewable-energy producer, despite its politics—and about the broken bureaucracy that’s preventing more states from going green.


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Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?

Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?

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