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Taking action to support clean energy projects in your community doesn’t have to be complicated. Here, you’ll get the facts you need to understand how renewable technologies like solar, wind and batteries work, and the tools that will help you make the case for clean energy and speak up effectively about these projects’ local benefits.
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Explore more facts, data and expert perspectives that will help you communicate and advocate with confidence about clean energy projects in your community.
Understand why it matters to show up for clean energy:
Read about a federal study that found local opposition is a leading cause of canceled clean energy proposals.
Get the polling data that shows a majority of Americans support these projects.
Check out Brown University’s research on the fossil fuel-linked groups campaigning against offshore wind.
Read an investigation into the group sowing “grassroots” opposition to renewable energy in rural communities across the country.
Get the facts on common questions:
Check out the Pew Research Center’s finding that Americans are most likely to see local wind and solar projects as benefiting their communities.
Read why the National Audubon Society says well sited wind projects will protect birds from climate change.
Hear from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on why entanglements, ship strikes and warming waters — not offshore wind — are the biggest threats to whales on the East Coast.
Read how solar can offset more carbon emissions than trees, from the Columbia University Climate School.
Learn about agrivoltaics (co-located solar and farming) and the land-use impacts of solar energy in context, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Check out Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked from Yale Environment 360.
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This page was last updated on March 17, 2025.