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Published online 12 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1225
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Top US court allows Navy sonar use
Environmentalists concerned over potential effects on whales.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that national security trumps environmental law, at least in the case of whales and sonar. Following the decision, the Navy no longer has to stop sonar training exercises off the southern California coast if whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are spotted nearby.
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