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In Iowa, Bipartisan Push to Become Leader in Wind Energy
2016-06-02 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Thanks to state officials who have long supported renewables, Iowa now leads all U.S. states in the percentage of its energy produced from wind. Big companies, including Facebook and Google, are taking notice and cite clean energy as a major reason for locating new facilities there. When crews prepared to erect five wind turbines on the Brunks Iowa farm three years ago, Steven and his father, Ronald, watched in awe at the magnitude of the components trucked in -- 160-foot blades that a person...
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