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Alas, Alaska
Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics |
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07 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ... |
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