Court overturns ruling on whales
A federal appeals court ruled in favor of environmentalists seeking protection for the endangered North Atlantic right whale, giving activists a victory in a fight to prevent whale-ship collisions.
The decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, overturns a lower court decision that declined to order the Coast Guard to review the ways that cargo-ship traffic might endanger the whales.
Environmentalists want ships to slow down where whales congregate or go around them.
But a proposed rule aimed at setting speed limits in whale areas has been held up by the Bush administration.
The decision sent the matter back to a lower court.
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