activists sue to protect polar bears

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com


Having not heard back from the Interior Department on their initial request, three environmental groups on Wednesday filed a notice to sue the Bush administration in order to get polar bears listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The threat, the groups argued Wednesday and in their first petition last February, is global warming. Many scientists tie manmade emissions of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases to warmer global temperatures, and the United States is the largest emitter of C02.

“Survival of the world’s remaining polar bears is increasingly jeopardized by rapid disappearance of the Arctic sea ice on which they depend for hunting, mating and migration,” the groups said in a statement.

[snowbear]

1. Gayne Norton could care less....

Her efforts over the past 3.8 years has been focused around getting Arctic National Wildlife Refuge open to please her boss man.

She cares nothing about the native people of Alaska who have been pleading with her to NOT drill in ANRW.

Next time it comes up for a vote --- which is soon ----- they've made it so that this particular vote CANNOT be filibustered.

Sooo... Gayle, Bush, the Alaska Senators, and all the oil companies will be in hog heaven because there's absolutely nothing Democrats can do about it ... :(

[roguevalley]

2. thank god. the next few are going to be make or break for them.

all the bears up here are having a time.