A federal judge temporarily blocked the Navy on Monday from using active sonar during a major multinational exercise off Hawaii until it can negotiate with environmentalists who say the sonar would harm whales.
On Friday, the Defense Department invoked a six-month national-security exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act to thwart a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
But U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, sitting in Los Angeles, ruled the exemption did not cover the National Environmental Policy Act cited in the lawsuit.
The Navy had planned to use sonar during the Rim of the Pacific exercise, which began last week off Hawaii with 40 surface ships and six submarines scheduled to participate.
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