A solar installment along the Mohawk River in Schenectady County.

This editorial board continues to support New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, the ambitious law aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. We also support the ability of local communities to shape their destinies, particularly when attempting to protect open space and farmland.

Those stances make it difficult to take a side in the ongoing fight between the Greene County town of Athens and Freepoint Solar LLC, which hopes to place 43 acres of solar panels along rural Potic Mountain Road but has been stymied by a zoning law limiting such projects to industrial and commercial areas.

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Freeport Solar argues that its plan, though relatively small, comports with the state's desire to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and it says the town's........

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