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Navy sued to halt training near endangered whales

Environmental groups sued the Navy on Thursday to halt plans for an offshore training range that they fear would threaten endangered right whales, which migrate to nearby waters off Georgia and Florida each winter.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Savannah, says the Navy approved construction of the $100 million range in July without completing studies to determine whether military ships, submarines and aircraft training 75 miles offshore would pose significant harm to the whales. Researchers estimate only 300 to 350 right whales remain. Experts say each whale killed by ship strikes or from entanglement in fishing lines and other underwater gear amounts to a large step toward extinction… Read Full Article by Russ Bynum

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