Renewable energy company Duke Energy agreed to pay $1 million in fines for causing the deaths of protected birds on Friday, the New York Times reports. 
Dozens of East Falmouth, Mass. residents are suing the town for health problems allegedly caused by wind turbines in their neighborhood. 
Fiscal hawks in Congress are pushing to end a federal energy tax credit for the wind industry set to expire at the end of the year. 
The wind energy sector spent big-time money in 2012 to protect its federal tax credits, lobbying disclosure reports released this week show. 
Congress extended wind energy tax credits worth billions of dollars in the last-minute deal hammered out by Congress to avoid the fiscal cliff, a move decried by free market organizations as “corporate welfare.” 
A wind energy tax credit championed by President Barack Obama will benefit financially a group of large American corporations that have donated overwhelmingly to Democratic candidates and committees. 
The scandal-ridden wind energy project co-founded by liberal “independent” Maine senate candidate Angus King received more than $33 million in cash under the 1603 program of the economic stimulus in June, according to the U.S. Treasury. 
Just days after the Export-Import Bank approved a multi-million dollar federal loan guarantee to benefit a mostly foreign-based wind-energy outfit, the company pink-slipped more than 200 American workers. 