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How a rural Texas county is using renewable energy to help its senior residents

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published May 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM CDT

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Bekah Stolhandske McNeel, freelance reporter for Grist, about what she found during her recent visit to a small town in rural West Texas, where the county is taking advantage of the nearby wind turbines to invest in its local community.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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