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Green groups will sue over feds' missed polar-bear deadline

Posted at 11:55 AM on 09 Jan 2008

Discontented with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's announcement that it will not meet its deadline for deciding whether to list polar bears as a threatened species, the Big Three green groups -- Greenpeace, NRDC, and the Center for Biological Diversity -- have notified the government that they plan to sue.

source: Associated Press

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