Whales, wind

Re “Lawsuit to stop Virginia Beach offshore wind farm claims project is a danger to whales” (March 20): Not sure any of you remember the struggle the nation had to ban secondhand smoke that was endangering people? It took years and many legal battles to keep it out of areas of top human exposure. The tobacco industry continued its profit-making while continuing the proliferation of disinformation around smoking’s ill health effects.

Do you know who has ties to The Heartland Institute and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow that are suing the U.S. Department of the Interior over the Dominion Energy wind farm project off our shores (that would feed up to 660,000 homes with renewable energy)?

Well it’s none other than the infamous climate change disinformation artist Marc Morano.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow receives funding from ExxonMobil and the Charles Koch Foundation. Big Oil has stolen a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook to stoke the embers of the climate denial movement by creating the appearance of a scientific debate. Reference Steve Milloy, a lobbyist who made a seamless transition from denying the health impacts of cigarette smoke to smearing climate scientists.

Do we know what kills these whales? A very interesting assessment is concluded from scientists studying their patterns in “What whales tell us,” narrated by CNN’s Bill Weir.

Be wary of attractive-named organizations. That is planned to hide their covert activity and maybe make you sacrifice something that is healthy for you and the Earth.

— Lucy Taylor, Newport News