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Green Factories Are Changing Minds in More Conservative US States

At least $25.7 billion of clean-energy factories are in the works, and the jobs they generate are winning over more Americans to solar, batteries and EVs.

Dalton, Georgia, is now home to the biggest solar-panel factory in the Western Hemisphere. 

Dalton, Georgia, is now home to the biggest solar-panel factory in the Western Hemisphere. 

Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg

At least $25.7 billion in new US clean-energy factories are in the works, thanks in part to the generous subsidies in President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law. Most of these projects — and the jobs that come with them — are in traditionally conservative states.

In Dalton, Georgia, green energy hasn’t been a priority. Its Congressional representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has said that “Earth warming and carbon is actually healthy for us.”