U.S. local and state lawmakers on Friday called for a temporary halt to ocean floor preparation work for two offshore wind farms in New Jersey and New York after another dead whale washed ashore in the area.
The whale’s death was the seventh of its kind in about a month.
According to the Associated Press, the whale deaths prompted a group of environmentalists and some citizen groups opposed to offshore wind power to call on U.S. President Joe Biden earlier this week to launch a federal investigation into whale deaths in New Jersey and New York.
The calls came as most environmental groups in New Jersey cautioned against linking offshore wind power to whale deaths, calling such a link “baseless and premature.”
