How a North Carolina village came to believe solar farms were 'killing the town'

As the state's solar industry booms, the growth of clean energy has stirred skepticism in the tiny rural town of Woodland, population 800

Not much grows in Woodland. Farmers cultivate small amounts of tobacco, pick cotton, and harvest soybeans in this north-eastern North Carolina town. This 800-person community with roughly twice the national poverty rate has seen better days.

But then, clean energy companies arrived. They saw opportunity and started building solar farms in the town - bringing a new kind of industry to a place that hadn't seen much in the way of economic development.