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By Amy Oliver Cooke and Robert Applegate As Ron Binz campaigns to be confirmed as the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, much of the emphasis has been on his position as an activist for what he considers to be low or no carbon energy sources, predominantly Big Wind. (Forget the fact that windhttps://i2i.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/i2i_building_facebook_1200x630.jpg1200630