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Local Governments Struggle with Mega Solar Plants, Look for Ways to Protect Environment

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    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Right

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Growth was further spurred in 2012 by the introduction of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) system, wherein the government guarantees that utility companies purchase electricity from renewable energy sources at a fixed price.
52% : " "Development has spread even to areas where local residents didn't want it happening," said Noriaki Yamashita, Senior Researcher at the NPO Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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