In North Carolina, renewable energy losing its edge as a political wedge

Energy News Network: One conservative blogger labeled Republican Bob Steinburg a “solar weenie” and called the wind farm in his northeastern North Carolina district “Bob’s Windmills.”

As anti-wind activists, bloggers and politicians rallied against his bid for state senate, Steinburg declined advice from some supporters to downplay his approval of clean energy. In the end, he won his May primary handily, with the widest margins in counties where wind-farm foes had stirred the most controversy.

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