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Published: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Florida Power & Light Sunshine Gateway Solar Energy Center. Photo credit: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Shutterstock In this aerial view from a drone, the Florida Power & Light Sunshine Gateway Solar Energy Center is seen on March 15 in Lake City, Fla. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Shutterstock A northern Florida town is at the center of a clash between renewable energy developers and residents of a historically Black community one that highlights an emerging rift between President Biden s environmental justice and clean energy goals. Many Archer residents are descendants of slaves and some of the nation s earliest Black landowners. And they want nothing to do with a 50-megawatt solar and 12-MW battery storage project proposed by Origis Energy and Gainesville Regional Utilities, or GRU. The project would span roughly 600 acres, and developers said the panels would be tucked behind a buffer of trees. Yet in residents eyes, a utility-scale solar array is no

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