1 in 4 U.S. Counties Blocks Clean Energy—This Idaho County May Reverse
Bannock County, Idaho voted 2–1 in March 2024 to ban utility-scale solar and wind. Now Commission Chair Jeff Hough—the lone dissenter—is leading a fall vote to allow solar, wind, and nuclear. The reversal is a critical test amid a national surge in rural clean-energy restrictions.
Source: Julia Tilton