Biden Climate Agenda Runs Aground Over Unexplained Whale Deaths

At stake is President Biden’s signature clean energy initiative to develop offshore wind turbine farms up and down the east coast — an integral part of his agenda to tackle climate change.

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The body of a humpack whale lies on a beach at Brigantine, New Jersey, after it washed ashore on January 13. It was the seventh dead whale to wash ashore in New Jersey and New York in a little more than a month. AP/Wayne Parry

Federal energy and environmental officials are moving to try to quash a battle between environmental groups over whether wind turbine survey work off the coast of New Jersey is causing the deaths of whales in the Northeast, saying definitively Wednesday that there is no evidence to support these claims.

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