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Article: Court rejects bid to weaken the "Dolphin Safe" label.(International Marine Mammal Project)
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- Earth Island Journal
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- September 22, 2007
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On April 27, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused to allow the weakening of the "Dolphin Safe" tuna label and condemned the failure of the Bush administration and federal agencies to base decisions on scientific evidence.
The three-judge panel handed down a unanimous judgment against the Bush administration in ruling that the Commerce Department, in an effort to weaken the standards for determining if tuna is "Dolphin Safe," based its findings on political issues, not scientific ones.
The Bush administration has been trying to weaken the Dolphin Safe standards in the Marine Mammal Protection Act for six years, in an effort to allow tuna ...