Workers assemble floating barges with solar panels on the ‘Lac des Toules', an alpine reservoir lake, in Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Switzerland,  Oct. 8, 2019.  (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP, File) GENEVA  — Voters in a southern Swiss region on Sunday rejected a plan to allow large solar parks on their sun-baked Alpine mountainsides as part of the federal government's push to develop renewable energy sources. The referendum in the Valais canton centered on economic and environmental interests at a time of high and rising concerns about climate change.

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