Wind Farm Eagle Death Prompts Federal Investigation

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The US Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the death of a golden eagle at a wind farm in Kern County, California, and is asking for local resident's help. Read more →

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Oregon Wind Farm One Of World’s Most Impressive

The Deputy Secretary tours Oregon’s Caithness Shepherds Flat wind farm, which is able to create up to 845 megawatts of emission-free wind power (enough electricity to power nearly 260,000 homes). (image via DOE)

Oregon’s Caithness Shepherds Flat wind farm is able to create up to 845 megawatts of emission-free wind power (enough electricity to power nearly 260,000 homes). Read more →

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High-Tech Tools Tackle Wind Farm Performance

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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory takes a look at some of the tools necessary to understand wind farm performance. Read more →

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Why Wind Farms Sometimes Pay To Get Rid Of Power

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Midwest Energy News reports on why wind farms sometimes need to pay someone to take the excess power they end up producing. Read more →

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Wyoming Wind Power On Massive Scale Inches Forward

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Wyoming Energy News reports on the current status of a planned 3,000 megawatt project in state that would contain as many as 1,000 turbines. Read more →

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Co-operative Wind Harvesting In The Netherlands

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Climate Central checks out farmers in the Netherlands making extra cash off of the wind turbines dotting their lands. Read more →

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Wind Farms, Global Warming Connection Lukewarm At Best

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Scientists behind a study of how wind farms impact local area temperatures release a Q&A trying to disentangle the take away from how certain media are covering the report. Read more →

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Wind Farms And “Climate Change” – Fact Vs Fiction

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Natural Resources Defense Council pokes holes in overblown media reports around a recent study that looks at the local land surface temperature impacts of large wind farms. Read more →

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How Do Wind Turbines Help Health Care?

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A health care network in Wisconsin has discovered going green is more essential to quality health care than many might realize by building and operating its own small wind farm. Read more →

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Proposed Lake Ontario Wind Farm Said To Threaten Wildlife

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Great Lakes Echo reports on now a proposed wind farm in the middle of an important bird area is drawing the ire of environmentalists over fears of bird and bat injuries. Read more →

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