Two years ago, Arizona was on the cusp of showing how a quintessential purple state could go green.
The state’s utility regulators had a bipartisan agreement on sweeping rules that would have set a 100 percent clean energy standard by 2050 for large regulated electric utilities. Advocates said it could have fueled a solar boom.
Politics, however, tanked the plan before a final vote. Despite an election last November that put more Democrats into statewide offices, including the governor’s seat, the Grand Canyon State now seems farther away than ever on a top-down plan to move the state away from fossil fuels.
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