Lawsuit Signals Failed Consensus on Sonar Impacts to Marine Mammals

By Suzanne Yohannan / November 1, 2005 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- A recent environmentalists' lawsuit challenging the Navy's use of mid-frequency sonar highlights the breakdown of a federal advisory panel's effort to agree on what harm man-made sound may be causing marine mammals and to develop mitigation measures for addressing that harm. The advisory panel -- which was tasked with addressing the same issues being raised in the litigation -- is poised later this month to finalize a report on noise impacts on marine mammals from man-made...

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