California’s San Bernardino County Slams the Brakes on Big Solar Projects
1st March 2019
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This points out a perennial source of friction regarding big ‘socially conscious’ activities. ‘Progressive’ state governments often mandate things that local inhabitants don’t want, so there is a constant fight between the two levels of government. Typically this is resolved by the upper level of government stepping on the lower level — state steps on city or county, federal steps on state — and that leads to a lot of spilled ink (or pixels) about ‘democracy’ and its discontents.