A proposed $400 million energy plant that would have been placed on prime Scott County farmland has been rejected – for the moment.

The Scott County Board of Supervisors on Thursday, Feb. 12, voted down a county zoning ordinance change that would have added thermal electric energy generation to the list of approved special uses for ag land, therefore…

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