Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, new study finds. Nearly 10 percent of today’s electricity ...

A new study finds that the health benefits associated with wind power could more than quadruple if operators turned down output from the most polluting fossil-fuel-based power plants when energy from ...

It’s commonly believed that new wind power generation will displace coal and natural gas-fueled power plants and thereby avoid all their associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as carbon ...

Monopiles that will be the base for wind turbines are being installed at Dominion's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project. (Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) ATLANTIC OCEAN — On a recent summer day, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Wind energy makes economic sense locally, environmental sense nationally and security sense globally, proponents said Wednesday. Speakers at Revolution: Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference ...

Building turbines produces carbon dioxide. It takes between about 18 months for wind turbines to make up for the energy costs of construction, estimates the Le Pair paper. And each turbine has to be ...

Between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012, there were an estimated 1.23 million collisions between motor vehicles and deer in the United States. In fact, North Dakota is annually among the states with ...

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On a recent summer day, under blue skies, a 272-feet tall, 31-feet wide, 1,500-ton steel cylinder was being pushed into the ocean floor 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The process will be ...