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02-04-2008, 08:01 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Monday reinstated a series of provisions meant to protect whales from high-powered sonar during military exercises in the Pacific Ocean.
The decision was a rebuke to an effort by the Bush administration to exempt the Navy from those rules and from federal law.
The decision, by Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of Federal District Court, found that the administration’s Council on Environmental Quality had overreached on Jan. 15 when it cited “urgent national security reasons” to approve weaker rules for the exercises.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/05sonar.html?ref=science
http://www.motherearth.org/bushwanted/bushpdf.pdf
The decision was a rebuke to an effort by the Bush administration to exempt the Navy from those rules and from federal law.
The decision, by Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of Federal District Court, found that the administration’s Council on Environmental Quality had overreached on Jan. 15 when it cited “urgent national security reasons” to approve weaker rules for the exercises.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/05sonar.html?ref=science
http://www.motherearth.org/bushwanted/bushpdf.pdf