Trump Administration Says Companies Can 'Incidentally Harass' Marine Mammals

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It's a decision opposed by environmental groups, who say the blasts could harm marine animals, and some coastal communities, who fear it could be a precursor to offshore drilling.

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There is no escaping human harassment.

KirstenNovelist I hate him

I’m crying. It’s just too much...

Yet another reason to despise current administration and realDonaldTrump . I ask GovernorVA to oppose seismic testing for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean.

Actually, an Obama Admin report says: “To date there has been no documented scientific evidence of noise from air guns used in geological and geophysical seismic activities adversely affecting marine animal populations or coastal communities.”

We have declared all whales to have human rights during the last International Earth Day. Come, be as One at the Human Pagoda. Peace Pavilion West is for animal solidarity.

Our country is going to shit and I don't know if we will ever recover.

There is no escaping human harassment.

Would someone please explain this to me...oh, never mind

Unforgivable

😡😢

Breaking news: GOP yet again proves they have no respect for anything, except money.

Booo on this selfish tunnel visioned pres and his groupie politicians filled with greed!!!

this is unacceptable

Liars!!! 😠 STOP ALREADY!!

OMG

Moran’s!

They either gave him money or said really nice things about him

The guy has no heart and no conscience.

Why! We have more oil than we need. Better served looking for alternative non-fossil fuel forms of energy. I sure that would not involve harassment. But oil, coal and gas will be perturbed.

MichD9NP No words to describe the depravity of Chump!!

WHAT THE HELL TRUMP!!! WHY DO HATE NATURE?!?!

Might cause an earthquake like fracking did today in British Columbia. All that plunder for the plundering.

It’s inadvisable for many reasons. Not just the harm it would do to cetaceans, but the dangers to our coast and fisheries. In addition, we should be focused on transitioning to renewables, not drilling for more oil.

Despicable

GOP SpeakerRyan SenMajLdr MSNBC FoxNews realDonaldTrump POTUS LindseyGrahamSC RandPaul RepGoodlatte TGowdySC ChuckGrassley JeffFlake SenatorCollins SenSchumer SenSanders NancyPelosi marcorubio ENOUGH ALREADY IMPEACHTRUMPNOW THIS IS HORRIFIC, DESTRUCTIVE

This isn’t anything new. Oil companies and their geophysical contractors have been using air guns offshore continuously since about the 1950’s. Including offshore MA, NY, NJ, NC, CA, TX, LA, MS, AL, and AK. I’m baffled why this is suddenly so surprising or shocking.

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Oh please no no no.

Omg. Go feed the homeless people outside your office.

So any “mischaracterization” in this story? I assume now your DNC handlers tell you what to write.

Sick of this $hi+

They do not name the five companies. I would like to know the names of the companies.

Wish someone would incidentally harass Trump with seismic air guns

scumdog millionaires

Seriously?!? Ugh... 😖😢

Another reason to hate trump

Npr sucks

Oh my god!!!!!

B💩

How can one person hate everything that is good?

Fake news, ya whale! Fatty

FuckTrump

Every industrial company harass nature. It's nothing new. Grow up.

FakeNews

I hate them so much. Like I seriously hate this administration with a passion.

Why don’t they just admit that short term profits are more important to them than species survival.

The animals will not know the difference between an intentional or incidental air gun blast. To imply that there may be a difference, other than alleviating personal guilt, is a new preposterous WH statement.

Excellent!

We are stewards—it's partially up to us to protect marine wildlife. Instead this administration authorizes harassing defenseless species in their own ecosystem for profit. Shameful and destructive.

No!!!!!! He sure is hell bent on destroying our world at a quicker rate!

Despicable

OH FFS can these guys not be evil for ONE DAY?!?

Humans are terrible creatures.

Only if we can do it back!

What happens when a sounding device hits an undetected fault line? Just curious if they've thought it through...

didn't you also just post an article about mad dead whales?

Oil company hired mercenary: *unloads M80 from helicopter into humpback whale* 'oh sorry I didn't see that whale there'

Can someone please drop Trump and his entire administration off at the great white 🦈 feeding grounds at the Farallon Islands?

Trump is evil and stupid.

FAKE NEWS!!!!!

The companies should have to test those air guns out on the Trump family & administration before using them on the marine life.

Trauma? They hear the guns coming, a pop every 7 seconds.

pramandaclark oh...

Don’t like it? Be sure not to drive a car, fly in a plane, own anything made of plastic, or heat your home with petroleum products. Then come talk to me.

This man is destroying absolutely everything

This makes me so incredibly angry, I can hardly focus right now. Pure greed and evil.

Because of course they did. Can't be evil without, y'know...being evil. When future generations curse our names it will be entirely justified.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhi

trumpsters, you are responsible for all this.

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