Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red district is part of the Biden administration’s best bet for keeping the president’s signature climate law in place.
POLITICO illustration; Photos by Robin Bravender/POLITICO's E&E News, Francis Chung/POLITICO, Getty ImagesDALTON, 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.
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 expanding dramatically and hiring, thanks to the major climate law enacted by Biden and uniformly opposed by Greene and her GOP colleagues.
Solar manufacturing is a new phenomenon in Dalton, which has long drawn its pride and its riches from carpet manufacturing. “The passage of the minimum wage law led directly to the manufacturing of carpet, because when you can’t have women hand-tufting around the clock, that led to the development of machine tufting because that way you were able to lower your labor hours but keep up your product rates,” Ware said.Americans shelled out for wall-to-wall shag in their living rooms or practical low-pile in their basements. The “Carpet Capital of the World” was flush with jobs and cash.
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