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Dems demand 'real solutions' to marine mammal deaths
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Two more bottlenose dolphins were found dead over the weekend
New Jersey’s federal lawmakers are demanding an action plan from the White House over marine mammal deaths off the region’s coastline. Two more bottlenose dolphins were found dead over the weekend, pushing the total to 28 dead dolphins off New Jersey’s coast in the last five months.
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Dems demand 'real solutions' to marine mammal deaths
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New Jersey’s federal lawmakers are demanding an action plan from the White House over marine mammal deaths off the region’s coastline. Two more bottlenose dolphins were found dead over the weekend, pushing the total to 28 dead dolphins off New Jersey’s coast in the last five months.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipNew Jersey's Federal lawmakers are demanding an action plan from the White House over the rise of Marine Mammal deaths off the Region's Coastline two more bottlenose dolphins were found dead over the weekend pushing the total to 28 dead dolphins off New Jersey's Coast in just the last five months in a letter to the White House Council on Environmental Quality all nine of the state's Congressional Democrats pressed the agency to do more to address vessel strikes and entanglements which have been shown to be the major cause of the deaths the members also highlighted the threat climate change poses to marine mammals and called out unsubstantiated claims that have blamed offshore wind activity for the increase in deaths the dolphin deaths are among whale and porpoise strandings that have prompted the need for more investigation [Music]
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