ENERGY [ALTERNATIVE]/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s no secret that President Trump really, really dislikes wind power. He’s been vocal on the subject for years, ever since a battle with Scottish officials over a plan to build what he called a ‘really ugly wind farm’ within sight of his golf resort in Aberdeen. More recently, in rallies and speeches, Mr. Trump has stepped up his attacks on wind turbines, suggesting that their noise can cause cancer (there’s absolutely no evidence of this) and predicting power failures when the wind stops blowing (also not true). Here’s a closer look at a few of his recent comments. You might get cancer. (You won’t.) During a sometimes rambling digression about wind turbines at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual spring dinner in Washington on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said: ‘They say the noise causes cancer.’ The suggestion that turbine noises cause cancer is completely unfounded. ‘The American Cancer Society is unaware of any credible evidence linking the noise from windmills to cancer,’ a spokeswoman for the group said in an email.”
–Brad Plumer, “We Fact-Checked President Trump’s Dubious Claims on the Perils of Wind Power,” The New York Times online, April 4, 2019