<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">More info on the Whale/ U.S. Navy Sonar issue.<div><br></div><div>Ken Tatro<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">"NRDC - Frances Beinecke" <<a href="mailto:members@nrdcaction.org">members@nrdcaction.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">July 14, 2008 12:51:26 PM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">"Kenneth Tatro" <<a href="mailto:kensword@cox.net">kensword@cox.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Whale Case Goes to Supreme Court</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:notice-reply-we7n7684o7j6358x@nrdconline.org">notice-reply-we7n7684o7j6358x@nrdconline.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" width="5"></td><td align="middle" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="200" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="boldblack" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><div align="center"><div class="style5 style10" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; "><div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">NRDC To Defend Whales Before Supreme Court</font></div></div><br><div align="left"><span class="style9" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><em>The New York Times</em>has urged the Court to rule for NRDC and hold the Navy accountable to our nation's environmental laws.<div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>You can read excerpts from the editorial at the end of this message.<div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/VdSxbgs1zcHP/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Read the full editorial here</a></span></div><div align="left"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#000000" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" /></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="4" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><font style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#333333" size="2">Dear Kenneth,<br><br>I have important news: our courtroom campaign to protect whales from the Navy's deadly sonar systems<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.</strong><br><br>At the request of the Bush Administration, the Court has agreed to consider whether the Navy can sidestep key environmental laws during its sonar exercises off the Southern California coast. The case will be heard this fall.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>As you know, a federal district judge and a federal appeals court have both sided with NRDC, ruling unanimously that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>the Navy must put environmental safeguards in place.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They also affirmed that no government agency is above the law.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><em>The New York Times</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>recently editorialized in support of our position. (You can read excerpts from that editorial below.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Tens of thousands of dolphins and whales, including endangered blue whales, could be harmed by Navy sonar off the coast of Southern California if the Bush Administration gets its way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Despite the fact that common-sense sonar precautions will not compromise our country's military readiness, the Bush Administration will not take NO for an answer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>It won't be thwarted by the fact that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>federal judges have already rejected these security claims as exaggerated and unfounded.</strong><br><br>It won't be swayed by the fact that NATO and the Australian Navy require similar precautions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><strong>Nor will it heed the Navy's own estimates that these drills could disturb or injure nearly 170,000 marine animals</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-- and cause permanent injury to more than 450 whales.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Thanks to your past support, we've won major courtroom victories in our decades-long campaign to reduce damage from the Navy's dangerous sonar systems. And with your help, we intend to do everything possible to win this momentous Supreme Court battle.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I'll be sure to keep you informed as events unfold in this historic case, which has broad implications beyond the sonar issue, because it raises the fundamental question of whether the military and the White House can unilaterally flout our country's environmental laws.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>You know where we stand on that issue. We will mount a vigorous defense aimed at safeguarding whales along America's coastlines and making sure that our environmental laws are not undermined by this or any other Administration.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Thank you for standing with us in this long, uphill fight for our planet's whales.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Sincerely,<br><img height="27" alt="Frances" src="http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/sig.jpg" width="73" vspace="5" border="0"><br>Frances Beinecke<br>President<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Natural Resources Defense Council<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>P.S. Taking on the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon -- the most powerful government agency on the planet -- will require unprecedented financial support. If you would like to help us wage and win this landmark court case, please<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/V7Sxbgs1zcHQ/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">donate here</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><hr><br><br>Key excerpts from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>The New York Times</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>editorial, "Of Whales and National Security", July 2, 2008:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>"Environmentalists have long claimed that the Navy's use of sonar for training exercises unduly threatens whales, dolphins and other acoustically sensitive marine creatures. The Navy has adopted some procedures to mitigate the risk but has resisted stronger protections ordered by two federal courts. The Supreme Court has now agreed to address the issue."<br><br>"The case at hand was filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council and other conservation groups to rein in Navy training exercises that use sonar to search for submarines off the coast of Southern California. The Navy says that its exercises pose little threat to marine life and that the training is vital to national security."<br><br>"A federal district judge and a federal appeals court in California, after careful reviews of the facts, have found that the Navy's arguments are largely hollow...The Navy itself estimates that the current series of drills, conducted over two years, might permanently injure hundreds of whales and significantly disrupt the behavior of some 170,000 marine mammals."<br><br>"The federal courts have played a valuable role in deflating exaggerated claims of national security. Let us hope that the Supreme Court backs them up."</font></font></td><td width="15" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img height="1" alt="" src="http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" width="15" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#000000" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" /></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#000000" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" /></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img height="1" alt="" src="http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" width="15" border="0"></td><td valign="top" align="middle" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img height="1" alt="" src="http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" width="15" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#000000" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" /></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#000000" colspan="5" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><img src="http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://img.getactivehub.com/08/custom_images/nrdc/spacer.gif" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 9px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1"><span class="footertext"><br><br><p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#003366" size="1">We appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you and other NRDC Members. 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