A panel of Democratic elected officials and environmental groups says climate change, spurred by the burning of fossil fuels, is the greatest danger to the world's oceans and marine life.
The event came a week after U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. and other New Jersey Congressional Democrats wrote to the White House Council on Environmental Quality "demanding real solutions in response to the death of marine mammals off New Jersey's coast."
Earlier this month, Republican New Jersey state senators Declan O'Scanlon and Ed Durr introduced a resolution calling on the federal and state governments to enact a moratorium on offshore wind preparation, saying "We cannot ignore the surge in marine life deaths that has occurred while offshore wind project preparation activities have been conducted along the coast."
Pallone and others said that as water temperatures rise, fish species that whales prey upon have been moving into different areas, bringing whales more frequently into the path of heavily traveled shipping lanes off the East Coast.New Jersey officials, environmental activists meet to discuss offshore wind projects, whale deaths
As Ed Potosnak of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters put it, "They're having a picnic in the Parkway; they're getting hit."
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