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Bear With Us
Green groups sue over delay in polar-bear endangered-species decision |
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01 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:13 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Environmental and native groups have sued -- as they are wont to do -- in an attempt to force the Interior Department to rethink its decision to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, which is prime polar bear habitat. The lease sale by the department's Minerals Management Service is scheduled to go ahead next week; meanwhile, another agency in the department, the Fish a ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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They Didn't Get the 'Aw, Cute' Memo
Public hearings on polar-bear fate get Alaskans all riled up |
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05 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| They Didn't Get the "Aw, Cute" Memo Public hearings on polar-bear fate get Alaskans all riled up The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is holding public hearings on plans to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, and it's getting an earful. A hearing in Anchorage on Friday brought out critics of all stripes, from the deputy director of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, endangered species, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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