How would Cape Wind reduce air pollution and greenhouse gasses?
Wind farms like Cape Wind are clean because they produce electricity from the wind and do not produce any air pollution. Yet wind farms provide even greater environmental benefits because their operations reduce the amount of fossil fuel power that needs to be generated, thereby reducing the amount of pollution that goes into the air. Using the methodology Massachusetts State agencies use to estimate air pollution reductions from wind farms, Cape Wind would reduce by several thousand tons per year air pollutants that harm human health. Cape Wind would also reduce about 734,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in New England, a greenhouse gas causing climate change.
