Obama Administration Requires Re-Look at East Coast Sonar Limits

By Suzanne Yohannan / February 3, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- An 11th-hour rule from the Bush administration on the harm the Navy is allowed to cause to marine mammals while using sonar off the East Coast will effectively be reexamined by the Obama administration, after hitting up against an order from President Obama's chief of staff to review regulations pushed forward at the end of Bush's term. The reexamination -- urged by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) -- appears to be the first...

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