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Tristan Bove

Trump hates the way wind farms look. Too bad, America’s court system says

Aerial image of the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., off the coast of Rhode Island. (Credit: Eric Thayer—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has always been crystal clear about his disdain for wind farms, but his second term’s landmark effort to halt new wind farm construction has now been undermined by five rulings from federal courts. 

Trump has called wind farms “ugly” eyesores. He has said they are “driving the whales crazy” and that wind energy “kills the birds.” He has also falsely claimed that the noise emanating from windmills can cause cancer. 

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