Talk:United States wind energy policy

Overview
Discuss the broad applications of wind policy. Wind policy is generally directed at three categories of constituents:
 * Research and Development Organizations
 * Commercial/Residential Generators
 * Manufacturers and Producers

Environmental Impacts
Many of the problems identified above carry over into this section. The section is simplistic, biased against wind power, and has significant POV problems. I can't see where the fact that wind power emits no air pollution, unlike fossil fuel power sources, is mentioned. Important advantages like this seem to have been overlooked. The Wind Turbine Syndrome mention and link are unnecessary as we no longer have an article on this topic as there were not enough reliable sources to support one. Shadow flicker is a minor issue not worthy of inclusion. The Radar interference section is overblown.

So I have replaced this discussion with the lead section from Environmental impact of wind power, which is altogether more appropriate and balanced, per WP:SS. And I have moved the discussion down as an article on Wind Energy Policy does not need to open with a discussion of Environmental impacts.

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Orphaned references in United States Wind Energy Policy
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Reference named "awea_q4_09": From Wind power in the United States: Wind Energy Grows By Record 8,300 MW in 2008] From Wind farm: http://www.awea.org/publications/reports/4Q09.pdf 

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 * I used the first item to fix the error. Still needs to be fixed, being a dead link, however. - Salamurai (talk) 03:30, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at James Madison University supported by WikiProject United States Public Policy and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page.

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