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Consultations about possible wind farm developments have just begun, but already misinformation is flooding social media.

Consultations about possible wind farm developments have just begun, but already misinformation is flooding social media.

Consultations about possible wind farm developments have just begun, but already misinformation is flooding social media.

<p>Dynamic and changing Arctic Ocean conditions have likely caused three major mortality events in the eastern North Pacific gray whale population since the 1980s. </p>

MOREHEAD CITY — The 30-day public comment period begins today on the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of the effects of issuing an Incidental Take Permit

NOAA issued a report evaluating an analysis by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of the Ocean Wind I project to be built off South Jersey.

NOAA issued a report evaluating an analysis by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of the Ocean Wind I project to be built off South Jersey.

NOAA issued a report Tuesday on the Ocean Wind I project to be built off the southern New Jersey coast that determined the project may disturb whales.

A report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration admits that New Jersey's planned offshore wind turbines may "adversely affect" local whale populations.

New Jersey's first offshore wind farm may “adversely affect” whales and other marine mammals, but its construction, operation and eventual dismantling will not seriously harm or kill them, a federal scientific agency said.