News tagged with 'Vieques Island'

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the territory of Puerto Rico seeking to block the U.S. Navy from resuming bombing exercises on the island of Vieques. The suit was filed last year after Puerto Rico's governor signed noise control legislation as part of the U.S. Noise Control Act of 1

In a major setback for critics of the United States Navy's use of the offshore island of Vieques as an Atlantic training facility, lawmakers decided this week that the Pentagon, not local residents, will determine if the Navy should stay or go. The House and Senate Armed Services Committee also agreed that the May 200

Puerto Rico has banned the sale of meat from Vieques Island pending the results of toxic substance testing. Two-thirds of the 51-acre island are used for U.S. Navy training exercises. Officials are unsure how much meat is produced from livestock that graze on Vieques, which is just east of Puerto Rico's main island. R

The White House announced today that it was making plans to pull the U.S. Navy from the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. A spokesman for President Bush said that all naval activities on Vieques will be suspended by May 2003. The Navy has used the island as a bombing range for over sixty years, the last several of which