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Environmental deal struck to allow Navy sonar for war games
Continue to the storyThe world's largest naval war games will go on as planned, with the 35 warships from the United States and seven Pacific Rim countries allowed to use active sonar. Yesterday, a federal court in California approved a settlement that requires safeguards, including a 25-mile sonar-free buffer zone around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument recently created by President Bush, and significant increases in monitoring for marine mammals during sonar drills.