The Obama administration is sticking by the Bush administration’s decision that polar bears are threatened by global warming, rather than in imminent danger of extinction.
In court papers filed Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the animal isn’t endangered under federal law.
As long as it’s in the polar bears’ best interest and not because the title of “endangerment” would increase protections and make oil and gas exploration more difficult to access in the arctic.
We don’t think animal activists or environmentalists will be happy about this decision.
A lawyer for an environment group has already called the decision “a lump of coal for the polar bear.”
Sad.
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