This week President Trump made a series of comments about wind energy that were not grounded in fact and ignore the many benefits wind power brings to communities filled with his supporters.
First let’s tackle the most erroneous claim: Wind turbines do not cause cancer. The American Cancer Society issued this statement in response to the President: “The American Cancer Society is unaware of any credible evidence linking the noise from windmills to cancer.”
American wind power has invested $125 billion in states that voted for the President, and almost 80 percent of the wind farms built in the U.S. since 2016 are in states the President carried. At the Congressional level, 78 percent of Republican districts have a wind farm, wind-related factory, or both.
In the future we hope the President gets the facts about wind power and recognises what a positive impact it has in the communities that supported him in 2016.
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