Prominent Marine Scientists Ask Obama to Block Controversial Sound Blasting for East Coast Oil & Gas Exploration

Leading ocean scientists from the U.S. and around the world today urged President Obama to halt a planned oil and gas exploration program off the Atlantic coast involving millions of underwater sound blasts that would have "significant, long-lasting and widespread impacts on the reproduction and survival" of threatened whales and commercial fish populations.

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