Working out the causes of East Coast whale die-offs

Building wind farms off the Eastern Seaboard has been discussed for decades. However, the Biden administration, with the support of 11 coastal states, has moved quickly to carve out huge swaths of ocean for development.

New Jersey has been the most ambitious, setting a goal to power more than 3.2 million homes with offshore wind energy by 2035.

Last year, the energy companies Ørsted and Atlantic Shores began conducting seafloor surveys off the coast of southern New Jersey for their respective lease areas, which have space for hundreds of turbines. That work drew little attention.

But after the January strandings, groups opposed to offshore wind development began blaming the deaths on the surveying, some of which uses pulses of sound […].

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