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The Best Defense is a Good ... Defense Two-year exemption allows U.S. Navy to continue sonar trainings		26 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
The Best Defense is a Good ... Defense Two-year exemption allows U.S. Navy to continue sonar trainings In a saga lasting longer than Moby Dick, the U.S. Navy will be allowed to train with sonar for two more years, despite evidence that the technology's use has injured and killed whales and other creatures of the deep. The Defense Department has provided an exemption from the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act so the Navy can undert ...
Topics: news, oceans, US Navy (all these topics)

Grist for the Military Navy divers clean up coastal messes		12 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Grist for the Military Navy divers clean up coastal messes Navy divers are the latest crazy hippies clamoring to clean up coastal messes. For problems too expensive or vast for civilian government agencies to handle, military divers provide cutting-edge technology and finely tuned abilities -- and in turn, they get to sharpen their diving skillz. This summer, Army and Navy divers helped collect tons of ol ...
Topics: Florida, Hawaii, news, oceans, US Army, US Navy (all these topics)

So Near, Yet Sonar Deal lets Navy make limited use of sonar in exercises off Hawaii		10 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
So Near, Yet Sonar Deal lets Navy make limited use of sonar in exercises off Hawaii A temporary ban on Navy sonar use has been lifted, after the Navy agreed to take steps to protect whales in return for the dropping of a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The Navy is in the midst of the world's largest naval war exercise near Hawaii; for the remainder of the exercise, mid-frequency active sonar will be ...
Topics: Hawaii, news, NRDC, oceans, US Navy (all these topics)

With This Ping, I Thee Dead Judge temporarily restricts Navy's sonar use to protect whales		05 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
With This Ping, I Thee Dead Judge temporarily restricts Navy's sonar use to protect whales The U.S. Navy is temporarily forbidden to use high-intensity sonar in war-game exercises off the coast of Hawaii, a federal judge declared on Monday. She ruled that environmental groups had provided "considerable convincing scientific evidence that the Navy's use of ... sonar can kill, injure, and disturb m ...
Topics: Department of Defense, Hawaii, news, oceans, US Navy (all these topics)

Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind We've got good news and bad news. Bad news first? OK: The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is the alleged site of government-sanctioned torture, practiced on suspects whose guilt is at best uncertain, likely to leave a permanent moral scar on the nation's soul. The good news? It's using renewab ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, politics, US Navy, wind power (all these topics)

The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws The U.S. military may be having trouble achieving its goals in Iraq, but at least it's getting what it wants on Capitol Hill: exemptions from key environmental laws. President Bush today is scheduled to sign a $401 billion defense authori ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, marine life, oceans, politics, pollution and waste, US Military, US Navy, wildlife (all these topics)

Ghost Busters Contaminated U.S. Ships Cause a Stir in Britain		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Ghost Busters Contaminated U.S. Ships Cause a Stir in Britain Controversy continues to swirl around four highly contaminated former U.S. Navy vessels -- dubbed "ghost ships" -- that are making their way across the Atlantic* to Hartlepool, England, where a British company has a contract to dismantle them. The first two toxin-tainted ships are being towed through the English Channel today, but they won't be b ...
Topics: England, placemaking, toxics, US Navy (all these topics)

The Sound and the Worry Okinawan sea life likely to suffer under Navy sonar deal	Jeff Shaw	23 Oct 2003	Main Dish
Every year, scuba divers make tens of thousands of excursions into the waters off Okinawa, Japan, drawn by the spectacular array of sea life on display. Soon, though, that sea life may be blasted out of the water by an unwelcome sonic barrage. The Okinawan coast is not clear. Photo: Jeff Shaw. Almost everywhere in the world except in this patch of ocean, denizens of the deep won a reprieve t ...
Topics: East China Sea, Japan, marine life, NRDC, oceans, politics, US Navy (all these topics)

Navy Gravy U.S. Navy Agrees to Reduce Use of Sonar System Linked to Whale Deaths		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Navy Gravy U.S. Navy Agrees to Reduce Use of Sonar System Linked to Whale Deaths In a sweet but possibly temporary victory for environmentalists, the U.S. Navy has agreed to dramatically decrease its use of a low-frequency sonar system that has been associated with the deaths of whales and other marine mammals. A court agreement announced yesterday limits the Navy to using the sonar system in less than 1 perce ...
Topics: oceans, US Navy, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Bubble Trouble Navy Sonar Is Causing the Bends in Marine Mammals, Report Says		09 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Bubble Trouble Navy Sonar Is Causing the Bends in Marine Mammals, Report Says Sonar from navy ships appears to be giving whales and other marine mammals the bends, that infamous bane of scuba divers and other deep-sea adventurers, according to a report published in the latest edition of the journal Nature. Researchers from England and Spain found air bubbles in tissues and blood vessels of whales that died in the Canary Islands shortly afte ...
Topics: oceans, US Navy (all these topics)

Giving Up the Ghost Fleet U.S. Navy Ships Get Ready for Transatlantic Trip, Toxics and All		03 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Giving Up the Ghost Fleet U.S. Navy Ships Get Ready for Transatlantic Trip, Toxics and All Thirteen is not a lucky number, and many fear that bad luck could trail in the wake of 13 decrepit and pollution-laden U.S. ships that are set to embark on a 4,500-mile voyage from Virginia to the British region of Teesside.* The ships are part of the U.S. Navy's "ghost fleet," a flotilla of 120 aging v ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy (all these topics)

Re-sounding Victory Judge Orders Navy to Curtail Use of Sonar to Protect Marine Life		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Re-sounding Victory Judge Orders Navy to Curtail Use of Sonar to Protect Marine Life In a victory for ocean advocates, a federal judge in California ruled yesterday that the U.S. Navy can't globally deploy a new submarine-hunting sonar system because the military neglected to follow federal laws when determining whether the sonar could harm whales and other marine animals. At the same time, Judge Elizabeth Laporte r ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, politics, US Navy (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

In Deep Du Du		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
In Deep Du Du The U.S. Navy regularly tests one of its weapons by firing radioactive ammunition into prime fishing waters off the coast of Washington state, a practice that fishers, scientists, and activists say could be harmful to human and environmental health. The weapon, known as the Phalanx or the Close In Weapons System, fires up to 4,500 rounds per minute of ...
Topics: marine life, Northwest, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy, Washington (all these topics)

Deaf Charges		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Deaf Charges In better news for environmentalists, a federal judge has rejected an effort by the White House and the U.S. Navy to exempt underwater military testing and other deep-sea activities from environmental review. Judge Christina Snyder ruled yesterday that the National Environmental Policy Act applies to such activities even if they are conducted beyond U.S. territorial water (but within 200 miles o ...
Topics: politics, US Navy, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

In the Navy, You Can Soil the Seven Seas		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
In the Navy, You Can Soil the Seven Seas Donald Schregardus, who was nominated by President Bush to head the U.S. EPA enforcement division but withdrew from consideration following public outcry and opposition in the Senate, has been appointed to an environmental post in the Navy. Schregardus spent 17 years with the federal EPA and was director of the Ohio EPA for eight years; environmental organizations say that in the latter ca ...
Topics: politics, US EPA, US Navy (all these topics)

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