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Environmentalists, fishing groups and federal officials are refuting claims that offshore wind farm construction may have caused a string of whale deaths.

Officials quash rumours that wind farms could have caused the "unusual mortality" along beaches.

Officials quash rumours that wind farms could have caused the "unusual mortality" along beaches.

Brigantine council passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on offshore wind projects to study what is causing dead whales to wash up at the Jersey Shore.

Since December 1, there have been nine whale strandings along the eastern U.S. coastline.

The cause of Mondays washing ashore of a dead humpback whale was found to likely be a case of vessel strike.

Brigantine council passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on offshore wind projects to study what is causing dead whales to wash up at the Jersey Shore.

Brigantine council passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on offshore wind projects to study what is causing dead whales to wash up at the Jersey Shore.

Among possible measures: limits on traps, reductions in the number of lines and a longer seasonal closure of lobstering waters.

Among possible measures: limits on traps, reductions in the number of lines and a longer seasonal closure of lobstering waters.