On July 18, the Obama administration approved the use of dynamite-like blasts to search for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean floor in the Atlantic Ocean from Delaware through Florida, in spite of the proven threats to marine life and risks to fisheries. According to the government’s own estimates, these dynamite-like blasts could injure and possibly kill up to 138,200 marine mammals. During this process, our government will jeopardize the health of large numbers of dolphins and whales which could include everything from temporary or permanent hearing loss, to the disruption of vital behaviors like communicating, feeding, mating, calving, migrating, and masking of biologically important sounds. More than 730,000 jobs in the blast zone are also at risk.
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