Solar-on-farms proposal stalls amid farming divide
A California lawmaker’s proposal to make it easier to build solar projects on former farmland stalled in the early hours of Saturday amid continued divisions among agricultural groups. Assemblymember Buffy Wicks pulled her AB 1156, which would have streamlined land-use changes to allow solar development on water-scarce farmland, from consideration in the final hours of the legislative session. … [T]housands of acres of fields and orchards are set to become fallow in the next decades as local officials and farmers work to meet the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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