Dustin Tingley

Sep 2, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Dustin Tingley |Ana Martinez |Ana Martínez

Carbon County also has abundant wind potential. A proposed large-scale development — the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project — would straddle private and federal land. The developers would pay the federal government to use its land. But under existing regulations, unlike fossil fuel extraction, the money companies would pay to produce this renewable energy on government land flows entirely to Washington and stays there.