Environmental
Apr. 1, 2009
Environmental Group Loses Challenge to Protect Whales
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco rejected an environmentalist group's argument that the Coast Guard's duty to regulate ship traffic required it to consider the Endangered Species Act so that it could better protect whales from being struck and killed by ships.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Even the largest animal on earth is no match for the massive container ships that ply California's coasts moving goods through the state's ports. Neither is an environmental group that sued to force the U.S. Coast Guard to better protect the imperiled blue whales from being struck and killed by ships. The Center for Biological Diversity lost its case Monday when U.S. District Judge Maxine C...
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