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Saving Whales Started As Left-Wing Cause, But Wind Farms Now Bring Conservatives To Fight

The body of a humpack whale lies on a beach in Brigantine N.J., after it washed ashore on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. It was the seventh dead whale to wash ashore in New Jersey and New York in little over a month, prompting calls for a temporary halt in offshore wind farm preparation on the ocean floor from lawmakers and environmental groups who suspect the work might have something to do with the deaths. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Saving the whales was once a leading cause for such left-wing environmental groups as Greenpeace. But offshore wind development has brought conservative groups into the fight to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction.

The Heartland InstituteCommittee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and the National Legal and Policy Center, want to draw attention to what they say is a connection between an increase in dead whales along the East Coast and industrialization of the U.S. Coast. A new study by an independent acoustician concludes that they may be right.

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