Luis Olmedo, an environmental justice advocate in the Imperial Valley, explains how previous clean energy initiatives failed to deliver promised long-term employment to local residents.
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“They promised the same thing, and now we ended up is with hundreds of people with certificates that are useless. Certificates for solar that, where there are no jobs.”
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