Oct 17

Federal judge blocks polar bear rule on global warming

Written by MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press.

A federal judge has thrown out a key section of an Interior Department rule that declared global warming is threatening the survival of the polar bear.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the Bush administration did not complete a required environmental review when it said the bear's designation as threatened in 2008 could not be used as a backdoor way to control greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

The Obama administration agreed a year later, saying that activities outside of the bear's habitat such as emissions from a power plant could not be controlled using the Endangered Species Act.

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# Robert 10-17-2011 20:40

Another liberal activist judge, and we should be surprised? These people went to law school specifically for this reason, not to practice law but to make their activism the law.

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# Gator 10-17-2011 20:45

"Jonathan Lovvorn, the group's senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation, said that just as the United States does not allow importation of tiger skins and baby seal fur, "American conservation law prevents American hunters from bringing home the heads and hides of imperiled polar bears shot in other countries."

Newsflash for Jonathon! Once poley bears have been shot and reduced to 'heads and hides' they are a bit beyond imperiled.

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