A man rides a bicycle through downtown Courtland, Ala. on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023.
A man rides a bicycle through downtown Courtland, Ala. on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023.Photographer: Liam Kennedy/Bloomberg
ESG & Investing

Deep in Trump Country, Biden Plan Creates Hundreds of Green Jobs

In the reddest district in America, First Solar is building a $1.1 billion solar-panel factory.

The papermill in Courtland is gone. The railcar factory in Cherokee too. Here in north Alabama, people are worn out from watching good jobs disappear.

“We’ve been beat on and beat on and beat on,’’ says Bobby Burch, who’s lived here his whole life.