A massive renewable energy project wants to cut through Arizona's San Pedro Valley. Locals are fighting back
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This story was originally copublished by Inside Climate News and Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting. CASCABEL, Ariz.—On an overcast spring morning the land between the Galiuro and Rincon mountains of southern Arizona is lusher and greener than one unaccustomed to the desert might expect.  Iconic saguaro cacti, some older than the state of Arizona itself, stand tall with arms that twist and twirl around themselves. Whole fields of cholla cactus...

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