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Down to the wire: Biden s green goals face a power grid reckoning
The U.S. will need new electric transmission lines to meet the president s aim of eliminating the power sector s net carbon pollution. But public opposition has doomed many such projects.
Additional electric transmission lines would allow different regions to share power in times of crisis. | Tim Boyle/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden s dream of a climate-friendly electric grid hangs on a slender wire: his administration s ability to speed the construction of thousands of miles of power lines.
But he’ll have to contend with a major obstacle: Americans who hate seeing these kinds of projects anywhere near their backyards. Power companies’ efforts to build long-range transmission lines have failed repeatedly in recent decades, mired in legal and political fights from Maine to Arkansas, because of opposition from states and communities along the projects paths.
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