With [1]only about 300 left, the North Atlantic right whale ranks as
   one of the world’s [2]most endangered marine mammals. Nearly
   annihilated centuries ago by whalers, the slow-swimming species is said
   to have earned its name because it was the “right” whale to hunt.

   Old-fashioned harpoons have yielded to other threats. Humans are still
   killing right whales at [3]startlingly high numbers — but by accident.
   Waters free from whalers now brim with ships that strike them, and
   ropes that entangle them.

   But Amy DiSibio, a retired stock trader who has vacationed in Nantucket
   for three decades, said many are turning a blind eye to noise and
   other ecological impacts of the energy project simply because it is
   branded green. “Wind farm sounds really nice,” she said. “It’s a power
   plant. It really is.”

   Her group, Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, [4]accuses the Bureau
   of Ocean Energy Management, which [5]approved the turbines, of failing
   to protect the right whale in its lawsuit. The effort has attracted
   support from many conservatives.

   David Stevenson, a former member of Donald Trump’s presidential
   transition team, has helped Nantucket Residents Against Turbines with
   publicity. And the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a right-wing think
   tank based in Austin, is [6]representing fishing groups that oppose
   turbines being built where they work.

   “If we were talking about an oil and gas platform,” said Robert
   Henneke, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s executive director and
   general counsel, “there’s absolutely no way that the federal government
   would be allowing that kind of a construction project in this area.”

   [7]https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/21/right-
   whales-biden/

References

   1. https://www.andersoncabotcenterforoceanlife.org/blog/right-whale-population-declines-for-10th-straight-year/
   2. https://www.worldwildlife.org/species-categories/marine-animals/species/directory
   3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/two-percent-of-the-worlds-north-atlantic-right-whales-have-died-in-the-last-two-months/2019/07/31/d3de7d1e-ae31-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_6
   4. https://dockets.justia.com/docket/massachusetts/madce/1:2021cv11390/237553
   5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/11/interior-department-approves-first-large-scale-offshore-wind-farm-us/?itid=lk_inline_manual_88
   6. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61618082/seafreeze-shoreside-inc-v-united-states-department-of-the-interior/
   7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/21/right-whales-biden/