‘Clean’ Energy Carries a Dirty Secret

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Published Wednesday 2 June 2021

Helen Raleigh writes at National Review Online about an aspect of “clean” energy that its advocates try to hide. President Biden pledged to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels. An estimate shows that to reach this ambitious goal, at least half of the U.S. power supply would have to come from clean energy such as solar and wind. However, one dirty secret that President Biden and his green allies don’t want to talk about is how “clean” solar energy is largely built on forced labor in Xinjiang, China, according to a new investigative report by U.K.’s Sheffield Hallam University.

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