U.S. military vs. whales at Supreme Court

   

The case of the U.S. Navy's attempts to conduct high-frequency sonar submarine training missions off the California coast -- which environmentalists say can frighten or even kill nearby whales and other marine mammals -- is moving toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

When the justices weigh the case in the fall, a central pillar will be whether the Bush administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making.

Bush administration officials say military readiness trumps the environmental protection law.

-- Johanna Neuman and David G. Savage

Photo: Ken Balcomb / Associated Press

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[anonymous]

Yucca Mountain, Off shore oil drilling, CA EPA standards and now the whales! Someone needs to dust off Bush's impeachment procedings, get them out of the stupid committe and on to a vote right now!