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New Jersey officials approved two contracts for offshore wind farms (stock), which a resident told DailyMail.com are the most expensive contracts signed by the states Board of Public Utilities.

BP and Equinor paused the Empire Wind 2 project that would have covered over 80,000 acres of the open sea in New York. The reset follows claims that the green energy is killing dozens of whales.

New Jersey residents, lawmakers and a former SNL star are fighting against off-shore wind along the east coast, claiming the sonar blasting is behind dozens of whales in the past year.

In May, Robert Rand, a leading echo sound expert, detected high-decibel sonar approximately 43 nautical miles east of Barnegat Light that did not match the equipment cited in the incidental take permit, prompting a comprehensive look at additional expired and active IHAs, Linowes said. Those reviews “revealed a regular pattern of NMFS accepting Level B harassment distances that are well under those expected. ...Inadequate mitigations during a sonar survey could result in marin...

New Jersey's offshore wind sector is taking shape every day amid calls continue for a pause in activity to learn more about marine deaths.

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center reported on its website a sub-adult female bottlenose dolphin was found dead in Stone Harbor on Saturday.

Since Dec. 1, 32 dead whales have washed ashore between Massachusetts and Florida.

New Jersey lawmakers asked for an up to 60 day halt on construction of sprawling wind farms being built off the coast during a hearing on Wednesday.

GOP lawmakers said during a Wednesday hearing that the state should stop efforts to build offshore wind turbines and track whether the number of whale deaths decreases during that time.

Four state senators hosted a online hearing about offshore wind energy generation and whale deaths on Wednesday.