The Trump administration will scale back support for solar energy projects on farmland, the Agriculture Department announced.
In an appearance with Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Vaden in Tennessee on Monday, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said the department was “rescinding all programs building solar panels on our farmland.”
The USDA on Tuesday stepped back the comment, saying in a news release that smaller solar energy projects through the Rural Energy for America Program would continue to be funded, and suggesting that only loan guarantees — not grants — would face the most stringent limits.
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“Our prime farmland should not be wasted and replaced with green new deal subsidized solar panels,” Rollins said in a news release.
