Seizing Private Land Is Next Step in Fight Against Climate Change
Eminent domain is becoming the weapon of choice against opposition to large wind and solar projects being planned and constructed around the United States.
The dream of net-zero carbon emissions—and its vision of blanketing hundreds of millions of acres of American land with wind turbines and solar panels—is running up against the reality that most of the land in America is still privately owned and many Americans don’t want these massive industrial installations near their homes.