Activists upset after Bush exempts Navy from law to allow sonar training off Calif.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- On Wednesday conservationists blasted President Bush's decision to exempt the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using high-power sonar in its training off Southern California -- a practice they say harms whales and other marine mammals.

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