EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmaker Looks To Shield American Farmland From Taxpayer-Funded Solar Projects

Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduced legislation Thursday that would protect American farmland from government-subsidized solar panel development.

The Protecting American Farmland Act — also sponsored by Republican Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis — would codify Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ Aug. 19 executive order prohibiting “taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland.” The legislation would block federal agencies from using tax dollars to support solar projects on “prime farmland,” as defined in the Farmland Protection Policy Act, and would also exclude those projects from certain federal green energy tax credits.

“Tennessee’s farmland is critical to America’s food supply, and the federal government should not be endorsing Green New Scam projects that subsidize ruining fertile American farmland by building solar panels,” Blackburn said in a statement provided to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Protecting American Farmland Act would ensure not one more federal dollar funds the destruction of productive farmland.”

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