Experts don't know what's behind the years-long trend of whale deaths. But there's no evidence connecting the deaths to offshore wind development, which is less noisy than fossil fuel exploration.
Nancy Solomon found that
some of the people making this claim do belong to an environmental group, but others are just anti-wind power. She discovered that one organization, Protect Our Coast NJ, is connected to a conservative think tank with a long history of opposing clean energy.There's no one answer, but experts have some theories. One is that whales may be following prey into waters with more boat traffic, Damon-Randall says.
Damon-Randall says another reason might be climate change. In response to warming oceans,"we are seeing populations move around and go into areas that they haven't historically been in," she says.are no longer considered endangered because of their population growth. More whales can mean more vessel strikes.NOAA will keep tracking the whale deaths.
As for the anti-wind advocates, two Republican congressmen from New Jersey have proposed pausing the offshore wind development and are looking into how it got approved in the first place. But New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy
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