Defense Environment Alert -- A federal district court has temporarily barred the Navy's planned use of low-frequency active (LFA) sonar, pending a look at ways to narrow its application to certain geographic areas. The court found that environmentalists who sued over the Navy's LFA sonar will likely be able to show violations of four laws -- the Marine Mammal Protection Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act and Administrative Procedures Act -- in their case against the Navy and...
