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How a rural Texas county is using renewable energy to help its senior residents

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published May 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM PDT

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Bekah Stolhandske McNeel, freelance reporter for Grist, about what she found during her recent visit to a small town in rural West Texas, where the county is taking advantage of the nearby wind turbines to invest in its local community.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Here & Now Newsroom