There’s quite a lot happening on the sonar front as of late. After a federal judge finally and triumphantly imposed a strict set of rules on the Navy’s use of mid-frequency sonar off the coast of Southern California, the Bush Administration attempted, in the name of the ever-vexing “national security”, to nullify the protections. The case has since been returned to the district court for consideration where a federal judge has kept part, but not all, of the original restrictions.
