Green Economy Has Changed National Politics: Close-up on West Virginia & Virginia

July 8th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Politics and political allegiances change with time. With the current clean energy revolution (still nascent, but growing fast), this powerful (no pun intended) sector is influencing politics quite a bit… or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that what politicians and industry do with this revolution is influencing politics.

Scott Cooney of sister site The Inspired Economisthad a great post the other day on how the clean economy seems to be changing politics in West Virginia and Virginia (in opposite ways). It’s a really interesting read, so I’d recommend checking it out: The Green Economy has changed national politics: Virginia and West Virginia case studies.

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Ryan

Thank you for sharing this. I’m from Virginia and as such am interested in all the inner workings here.
- http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  No problem. I used to live there as well, so found it a bit more interesting than i would have for that reason perhaps, but thought it would be interesting to a broader audience too