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Carbon County, Wyoming, Knows Which Way the Wind Is Blowing Source: By Dionne Searcey and photographs by Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times • Posted: Thursday, March 4, 2021
In the heart of coal country, the town of Rawlins will soon be home to one of the nation’s largest wind farms. But pride in the fossil fuel past remains a powerful force.
The Ekola Flats Wind Farm in Carbon County.
RAWLINS, Wyo. The coal layered underground helped bring settlers to this scrubby, wind-whipped part of southern Wyoming, where generations found a steady paycheck in the mines and took pride in powering the nation.