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Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales.
The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are nearing extinction; just 370 remain, and vessel strikes are one of their leading causes of death.
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