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An interesting story today in the NYTimes about residents opposed to windmills. The article focuses on how members of the town community board have business dealings with the windmill companies and blatantly told residents who raised concerns about the towers to shut up.
While wind power presents an opportunity for America to free itself from foreign oil dependency, windmills present environmental issues of their own: they are an eyesore and noisy. There is no state oversight on the placement and their size of the wind turbines. Some of the towers are 400 feet high and while you can always look away from them, the noise is constant. The noise is described in the article as a hum of spinning turbines.
New York Times
In Rural New York, Windmills Can Bring Whiff of Corruption
By NICHOLAS CONFESSOREAn interesting story today in the NYTimes about residents opposed to windmills. The... more
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The Auto Alliance's ad is deceptive—Help us run our response
Automaker lobbyists have been trying to deceive American consumers and lawmakers about pollution emitted from today's cars, pickups, minivans, and SUVs. See their ad (left) and our response (right) and then learn more about the level of the Auto Alliance's misrepresentation and why we at the Union of Concerned Scientists felt obliged to respond so strongly.
http://go.ucsusa.org/general/special_features/page.cfm?pageID=1667The Auto Alliance's ad is deceptive—Help us run our response
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WASHINGTON — The number of motorcyclist deaths jumped in 2007, accounting for nearly one in eight motor vehicle deaths, government safety officials said on Thursday.
Deaths of people in cars and trucks, on bicycles or on foot dropped by nearly 2,000 last year, pushing the overall death rate to a historic low. But deaths of motorcyclists surged 6.6 percent, to 5,154; 2007 was the 10th straight year of increase.
By MATTHEW L. WALD
The New York TimesWASHINGTON — The number of motorcyclist deaths jumped in 2007, accounting for... more
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