March 27, 2026
The U.S. Navy urged a Washington federal court Friday to reject an environmental group's bid to file a new complaint challenging its amended environmental impact analysis on expanding training flights on Whidbey Island, arguing that it would be "futile."
September 01, 2023
A federal judge said Friday he will not vacate the U.S. Navy's plan to expand training flights on Whidbey Island, Washington, despite ruling that the service branch failed to analyze the effects of low-flying jets on schools and bird populations, in an order that requires the Navy to reconsider an environmental impact report that greenlighted the added flights.