After a dead humpback whale washed ashore on Assateague Island this week, Maryland Congressman Andy Harris is calling for a halt to offshore windmill construction. The First District Republican released a statement calling for a full and transparent release of necropsy results to determine how the whale died. Harris says a moratorium is necessary until it is definitively proven that windmill construction and geotechnical testing are not the cause of what he called repeated whale deaths. According to NOAA, at least nine whales have died and washed ashore on the East Coast in recent weeks.