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After months of delay, a court order will force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare Thursday whether or not it believes polar bears are endangered. ... "It's coming to a head,'' said Pete Ewins of the World Wildlife Fund. "The key thing, what are they going to...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne hasn't added a U.S. creature to the endangered species list since he took office two years ago. The former Idaho governor has until Thursday to decide on one that could prove troublesome to promising petroleum drilling off Alaska's northern...
The Washington Post devoted its KidsPost page today to a sympathetic plea for the polar bear -- the predatory creature that environmentalists want listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. With a decision looming on Thursday for the Bush administration, the Post is...
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue May 13, 2008 7:46 AM EDT Environmental groups, claiming manmade global warming threatens the polar bears’ survival, have called for an endangered species listing with extraordinarily far-reaching consequences. Such a listing would most likely place the Arctic...
MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti) - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging the U.S. to follow Russia's conservation efforts to save the polar bear, the regional program director for WWF Russia said on Tuesday. This Thursday is a deadline set by a federal judge in Alaska for George Bush's...
endangered species epitomizes what's wrong with global-warming alarmism and environmental extremism. A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to decide whether to designate the cute, cuddly critters as an endangered species. The polar bear's endangered listing would be a back door for global-warming...
clipped by: papananookclipper's remarks: Hmmm...let's see....the Polar bear or my cronies in Big Oil's profits. Right ...who'll give me odds on profits? Clip Source: www.commondreams.orgIt’s a classic stand-off between one of the world’s best loved animals and one of its most unpopular leaders,...
Thursday is it: The big day for the future of our global economy.It's not a particularly big day for the polar bear, even though its the cause of all that may follow this Thursday's mandated decision by the Dept. of the Interior regarding the proposed listing of the bear under the federal...
If you want a good indicator of whether oil could reach $200 per barrel soon, just watch the decision from the Interior Department (ordered by a judge to come by May 15) as to whether the polar bear should be put on the "threatened" list. If so, economist Kevin Hassett...
Protecting polar bears would harm humans ... An Orange County Register editorial The rush to declare polar bears an endangered species epitomizes what's wrong with global-warming alarmism and environmental extremism. A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to...
Thursday is the deadline set by a federal judge in Alaska for the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether the polar bear is a threatened or endangered species. All the evidence shows the polar bear doesn’t need his help. Environmental groups petitioned for such a listing and sued when a...
Environmental Organizations, Non-governmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Natural Resources, Environment, Energy, Government, Utilities, Endangered Species, Climate Change, John Baird, Dirk Kempthorne, World Wildlife Fund, Ontario, North America, Ottawa, Canada
