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A Floodlight and NPR investigation into a non-profit group that uses false propaganda to stop rural solar energy projects in the US.
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Floodlight's Miranda Green, NPR's Michael Copley and the story are about Citizens for Responsible Solar.
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This group was founded in 2019.
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According to its website, the group has used anti-wind activist strategies and worked with local groups to combat solar projects in at most nine states.
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Farmers who want to put solar farms on their land are having that opportunity stolen from them...
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because Citizens for Responsible Solar is falsely claiming that “large solar projects in rural areas wreck the land and contribute to climate change, despite evidence to the contrary,” writes Green and Copley.
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Citizens for Responsible Solar does not exist as a grassroots organization.
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It was established by Susan B. Ralston, a Washington insider.
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After being involved in two scandals, a White House aide was forced to resign.