"I've got save-the-whale folks saying, ​'Why do you have 192 whale groundings on the beaches of New England?''" said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, at an event on Monday hosted by the American Petroleum Institute. He said he was paying attention to people claiming that humpbacks, rights, and other whale species started stranding en masse when ​"we started building these things," referring to turbines.
No evidence supports these claims. In fact, Tuesday's news that the North Atlantic right whale population grew by about 2% from 2023 to 2024 may be the strongest rebuke of Burgum's statements. That time period coincided with the busiest time for U.S. offshore wind farm construction to date...
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