Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 6/12/19

A three-year ban on new wind farms throughout much of eastern North Carolina cleared the Senate Wednesday on a divided vote. Sponsors said, much as they did last week, that they hope to remove the moratorium language from the bill before it's final. But Senate Bill 377 moved from the Senate to the House with the moratorium language intact and would ban windmills in wide swaths of the state to protect corridors military pilots use for training.

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