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By Rocky Barker and Erika Bolstad, The Idaho Statesman, Boise May 15--Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne may have cast polar bears as the enduring symbol of the effects of global warming on Wednesday by protecting them with the Endangered Species Act.
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Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Because of Projected Global Warming Could...
Written By: Peyton Knight and Amy Ridenour Published In: National Policy Analysis Publication Date: March 1, 2008 Publisher: National Center for Public Policy Research Abstract: Few animals capture the imaginations of Americans quite like the polar bear. Just ask Coca-Cola, whose animated polar...
Polar bear pander
Washington Examiner Editorial:The U.S. government says the population of polar bears has increased four-fold since the 1960s, so the bureaucrats whose job security depends on stirring up environmental distress have classified the huge white beasts as an endangered species. Surely Alice in...
Polar Bears to Be Listed as 'Threatened,' Interior Secretary Says
By Lea Terhune A battle waged from the Arctic to the courts led U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne to accept U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recommendations and pleas of environmental groups to list the polar bear as a threatened species. With the Arctic Sea ice loss exceeding...
File A Complaint
Under the Endangered Species Act the polar bear is now listed as a threatened species. After 18 years of a law practice devoted to counseling landowners, home builders and commercial interests affected by the long arm and severe penalties of the Endangered Species Act, I am used to incredulous...
Polar bears: A poster animal for global warming
ASHEBORO — Oh, to have the life of Willie. On Friday, as she policed the rail, she gave the excitable kids — and their parents, school volunteers and teachers — a reality check. "Polar bears were put on a list this week, and it's not a very good list,'' she told them. If the habitat of Willie's...
Polar Bear the Issue: It Will Be Listed As a Threatened Species. Their View: Global Warming is...
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne held true to the letter of the law in the Endangered Species Act and announced this week that the polar bear will be listed as a "threatened" species. Its habitat - Arctic sea ice - is disappearing because of global warming.
Polar Bears Added to List of Threatened Species
Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 21:00 CDT By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 15--The Bush administration added polar bears to the list of threatened species because of fast-melting sea ice but took steps to ensure the decision would do nothing to slow greenhouse gas...
As If The Polar Bear Listing Weren't Enough
No sooner is the ink dry on yesterday's disastrous threatened listing of the polar bear than the Greenies are back with another proposed listing for a species supposedly impacted by theoretical global warming. From E&E News:The Bush administration will consider Endangered Species Act protections...
Richard Luscombe on this week's decision to list polar bears as 'threatened'
Gilbert Leavitt pulls up his thick parka hood against the biting wind, revs up his snowmobile and ploughs on through the ice of the Arctic tundra in pursuit of a polar bear he saw at America's most northerly point a few days ago. If the scientists who study global warming are right, polar bears...
Great white hope
Polar bears have become totems of the battle against oil exploration in Alaska. Richard Luscombe in Barrow, Alaska Gilbert Leavitt pulls up his thick parka hood against the biting wind, revs up his snowmobile and ploughs on through the ice of the Arctic tundra in pursuit of a polar bear he saw at...
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Environment, U.S. Federal Executive Departments and Cabinet, U.S. Government, Climate Change, Greenhouse Effect, U.S. Secretary of The Interior, Legislation, Government, Global Warming, Environmental Damage, Greenhouse Gases, Natural Resources, Environmental Pollution, Endangered Species, Dirk Kempthorne, Julie MacDonald, U.S. Federal Government, U.S. Interior Department, United States of America, North America, Boise (Idaho), Idaho
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