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By Robin Bravender
07/12/2023 04:30 AM EDT
DALTON, Ga. — President Joe Biden and Marjorie Taylor Greene have at least one thing in common: They’re both big fans of a solar factory in this corner of northwest Georgia.
This sleepy corner of the state, carved out of the Appalachian hills and long known for its carpet industry, is decidedly not Biden country. Former President Donald Trump won nearly 70 percent of the votes here in Whitfield County in 2020, the same year the district first sent the flamethrowing Republican Greene to Congress.
One morning in June, a white pickup truck displaying an “Impeach Biden” bumper sticker drove past a Dalton Waffle House. At a nearby Walmart, Dalton residents described their support for their congresswoman. “She’s got balls,” said one local retiree who declined to give his name. “She seems to stand up for us,” said an 84-year-old Greene supporter who thinks 80-year-old Biden isn’t “cognitive enough” to be president.
So the heart of Greene’s district might seem an odd place for a solar plant that’s become a poster child for the Biden administration’s climate policy agenda.
But that’s the story behind Hanwha Qcells, a South Korea-owned company that built the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the Western Hemisphere in an industrial area south of Dalton’s downtown. It started churning out solar panels in 2019, but it’s...
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