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Department of Interior Polar Bear Ruling Subject of Lawsuit
Last week, the U.S. Department of Interior made news around the world when it agreed to list the polar bear as a “threatened” species. But despite the fact that the main threat is loss of ice shelf habitat because of global warming, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that the federal government would not use global warming pollution reduction as a tool to save the bears. Several environmental groups are now taking the Bush Administration to task because of the Secretary’s position.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
The polar bear should be listed as endangered, not threatened. Also, there should not be any legal roadblocks to taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the proven source of the main threat to the polar bear.