![Figure ES-1. A Path to 30 Percent Wind Electricity](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wind-generation.jpg)
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American wind power is already significantly reducing global warming pollution. In 2013 alone, wind power averted 132 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions – as much as would be produced by 34 typical coal-fired power plants. But with the United States and the world needing to move toward a future of 100 percent clean energy in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming, America must do much more.