Oppose the Anti-Wind Energy Section of H.R. 2337

Urge your Representative to oppose the Anti-Wind Energy Section of H.R. 2337
This Anti-Wind Bill Would Strangle Clean Wind Energy Jobs and Rural Development.

Take Action!

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) has just introduced a bill (H.R. 2337) that would place enormous, wrong-headed restrictions on America’s growing wind energy efforts. If enacted, the bill would severely hurt farmers, ranchers and other landowners who have – or want to have – clean, income-producing, wind energy turbines on their property. Anti-Wind Energy Section of H.R. 2337, establishes onerous standards for siting, construction, monitoring, and adaptive management that must be satisfied by all wind projects to avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse impacts on migratory birds and bats despite the fact that wind turbines cause less than 0.003% of human-cause bird mortality.

The bill would impose:

• Imprisonment and a $50,000 fine for placing a wind turbine on private property without first gaining approval from bureaucrats including the head of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

• Impose a heavy-handed “solution” where there is no significant problem:
- The bill claims to protect birds by placing onerous new regulations on wind turbines.
- Meanwhile, vastly more birds – on a scale of 10,000 to less than one – are killed by house cats and plate glass windows than by a single wind turbine.
- The bill completely ignores the most serious effects of continued reliance on traditional fossil fuels, human-induced global warming, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has associated with mass extinctions of species.

Please email or call your Representative to request that he or she oppose the Subtitle D Anti-Wind Energy Section of H.R. 2337.

Take Action!