Two short-beaked dolphins spotted in East River, New York
‘Super exciting’ visit of dolphins to East River offers hope of cleaner New York
The Guardian
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As reports of the dolphin duo emerged over the weekend, St Lawrence said the biggest reaction Gotham Whale received was concern from people who wondered whether the dolphins were OK.
“We’ve seen dolphins and other marine life end up in some of these polluted canals and then end up dying and people were worried about that happening with these animals right in the East River,” St Lawrence explained, adding: “But experts have shown that the East River is the cleanest now than it’s been in a century.”
Pointing to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the 1972 Clean Water Act, which regulates discharges of pollutants into waters across the US, St Lawrence said: “These environmental regulations have cleaned up our city’s waterways, enabling things like fish to marine mammals to come into these waters and survive.”
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