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The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid

  • Written by Jonathan Buonocore, Research Associate, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the gridOffshore wind turbine near ScotlandU.S. Department of the Interior

New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of discussion about the vast potential of this previously untapped source of electricity.

But as an environmental health and climate researcher, I’m intrigued...

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