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American Lung Association's misguided support for wind energy
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The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well...
But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother’s windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.
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Remarks of Sen. Lamar Alexander on 5/13/05 in introducing his Environmentally Responsible Wind Power Act of 2005
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