You cannot power modern civilization on wind and solar, which is the underlying issue here.
And windmills appear to be killing unacceptable numbers of both birds and whales, in addition to failing to generate enough power to supply civilization.
The legislature that passed the law in question in this article should have included a paragraph designating that Pi be equal to 3.00 while they were at it. Same level of realism involved.
I believe someone once did explicitly define Pi as 22/7 (New Jersey?)