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Clean Energy, Dirty secrets: Inside The Corruption Plaguing California's Solar Market
11 Jun 2025 | Abstracted from Science Daily
"Researchers uncover seven distinct forms of corruption threatening the integrity of the state s clean energy expansion, including favoritism, land grabs, and misleading environmental claims...corruption in California's renewable energy sector has gone largely unexamined, allowing the underlying dynamics at play to erode the potential of a just energy transition...the study's authors recommend corruption risk mapping to document problematic practices and entities..."
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