Rutgers Professor: 'Absolutely, 100 percent, offshore wind kills whales’

The Biden administration has repeatedly denied the massive wind developments being surveyed and built off the Atlantic coast have had “no impact” on whale and other marine mammal life. Those denials have continued despite the fact that whale deaths in the region have risen from about 2 per year prior to wind development to 28 per year since it began, resulting in great skepticism about the government’s findings.

One professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey was so curious about the subject that he designed a database application as a research tool to help study it. That man, Apostolos Gerasoulis, a Rutgers professor emeritus of computer science, is one of the co-creators of the search engine that powers Ask.com.