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The North Carolina town that's scared of solar panels, revisited
2015-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: On December 8, a modest local newspaper, the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald, published a story that ended up going viral, bouncing from Reddit to more than 220 other sites. It caused such buzz that even Snopes checked it out. The story was about a town council meeting in Woodland, a North Carolina town with just over 800 residents. The council was considering whether to make a zoning change to a piece of land just outside town, to allow a solar farm to be built there. It would have been the fourth...
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