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Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Navy must adopt safeguards for whales in 2008, says court |
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14 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 11:54 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Update on the seemingly endless saga of whether the U.S. Navy should restrict underwater sonar use in the interest of whale health: A federal appeals court has ruled that while the Navy may continue its current training exercises in southern California as is, exercises that begin in January must operate under better safeguards for marine mammals. The plan will have to be appro ... |
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| Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Play It Again, Uncle Sam
Appeals court overturns ruling, allows Navy to test underwater sonar |
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04 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:23 PM on 04 Sep 2007 It's the controversy that keeps on controversing: The U.S. Navy wants to test underwater mid-frequency sonar. Marine advocates say such testing effs up whales and other marine mammals. Repeat. (Grist has been writing about this issue since 1999, and we have never reused a headline. Thank you.) Anyhoodle, here we go again: last month, a federal judge ordered the Navy to ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Flo Nays
Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast |
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07 Aug 2007 |
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| Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to stop using mid-frequency active sonar in exercises off the Southern California coast through 2009. Noting that the Navy's own evaluation says the sonar exercises could disrupt marine mammal behavior in as many as 170,000 instances, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper fou ... |
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| Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, NRDC, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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