New Jersey State Lawmaker Calls for Moratorium on Offshore Wind Projects

State lawmakers alarmed at volume of marine mammal strandings since December 2022

Waves break out at sea in front of Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm near New Brighton, at the mouth of the river Mersey in northwest England on March 13, 2019. Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

Two New Jersey state lawmakers want work on offshore wind projects to stop until it can be determined why marine mammals are showing up dead on their state’s beaches.

“We’re not going to fix blame on any one activity. But clearly, something is out of the norm,” New Jersey State Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger told The Epoch Times.