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Study: Wind farms killed 67 eagles in 5 years

By Dina Cappiello
Published September 11, 2013 4:00am ET
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Study: Wind farms killed 67 eagles in 5 years
This photograph made in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, shows pages from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Office of Law Enforcement document obtained with a Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA) request by the Associated Press in the investigation of a dead bald eagle the reports says was found at the Carroll Wind Farm in Carroll, Ia. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) | J. David Ake

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists.

The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nation’s growing wind energy industry, which has been a pillar of President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming. Wind power releases no air pollution.

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