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February 14, 2013

The AP's 'Dirty Solar' Story Is Wildly Misleading

Pete Danko, EarthTechling


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Goodness, the anti-solar crowd loved that Associated Press story on solar photovoltaics manufacturing and hazardous waste, the one that purported to expose solar’s “dirtier side,” as the AP called it. . .

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