Calls to Halt Atlantic Offshore Wind Projects Grow Louder as Whale Deaths Continue
Three Republican congressmen and more than a dozen mayors whose coastal districts are near offshore wind energy sites are calling on the Biden administration to suspend offshore wind projects until a thorough investigation into a recent spate of whale deaths rules them out as the cause.
Since Dec. 1, 2022, at least 23 whales have been found dead along the New Jersey and New York shorelines. Whales have also washed ashore in Maryland and Virginia.
Two more were stranded in New Jersey over the weekend of Feb. 17.
Reps. Jeff van Drew and Chris Smith of New Jersey, and Andy Harris of Maryland, represent coastal communities where opposition has been organizing against the projects….