April 20, 2023

Source: Newsweek

Excerpt:

Texas and other majority Republican states are leading the U.S. in both wind and solar power, despite polls showing Republican voters rank tackling climate change as a far lower priority than Democrats do.

A recent report by Climate Central, a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science, found that across the U.S., wind and solar capacity has increased by 16 percent from 2021. Texas—the dominant U.S. oil-producing state— generates the most energy from wind power by far, followed by Iowa, Oklahoma and Kansas, it said.

All four states backed former President Donald Trump in 2020 and their elected representatives are mostly Republicans, although Kansas has a Democratic governor.

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