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Will farmers be compensated for demolishing photovoltaic panels

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that 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. 2 million acres of farmland in 30 years to solar development, with projections of 2 million acres lost by 2027. . “Our prime farmland should not be wasted and replaced with green new deal subsidized solar panels. Editor's Note: The following first appeared in The Maine Monitor's free environmental newsletter, Climate. . While land leases generally offer protection for landowners so that farms can be reclaimed from the solar installations, in practice damage is already being done with remediation as long as 50 years in the future. The target for solar operations is increasingly in the Midwest, where government. . U.

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