Wind power will be used to fuel the flame of Lady Liberty’s torch – a powerful symbol of the United States’ growing commitment to clean energy. The Bush administration’s U.S. National Parks Service is contracting a local energy supplier to supply three years’ worth of clean, green wind power from upstate New York to light up the patriotic statue, as well as the nearby Ellis Island museum and several other sites, according to GreenBiz.com.

Environmentalists are protesting that the symbolic statement is just a ruse to cover up for a meager effort to promote energy alternatives: "The president's pollsters are telling him that high energy prices and his drill-only energy policy are driving his job-approval numbers down. So he's decided to go out and tell Americans what the polls tell him they want to hear," Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, said in a recent article in the Mail & Gurdian. "It's just the same old oil guy doing photo ops at solar plants."

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