WHALE-FRIENDLY WIND POWER:NWF and its partners have brokered landmark agreements that help protect endangered North Atlantic right whales while moving renewable energy forward

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The benefits of offshore wind power may seem obvious above the water: renewable energy that can help reduce the environmental impacts of climate change. But recent agreements that NWF and its partners brokered with East Coast offshore wind developersalso will aid wildlife below the surface.During the past two years, Deepwa-ter Wind, Energy Management Inc. and NRG Bluewater Wind have worked with the Conservation Law Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Federation and other organizations to develop measures that ensure offshore wind precon-struction activities along Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia do not disturb North Atlantic right whales.