Judge Rules Against Navy’s Use of SONAR

I’m sure that the Russians and the Chinese are thrilled with this ruling.

The Navy must follow environmental laws placing strict limits on sonar training that opponents argue harms whales, despite President Bush’s decision to exempt it, a federal judge ruled Monday.

The Navy is not “exempted from compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act” and a court injunction creating a 12 nautical-mile no-sonar zone off Southern California, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper wrote in a 36-page decision

Now it’s all that much easier for them to park a submarine packed full of nuclear missiles off the coast of L.A.