Bush gives OK for oil companies to pester polar bears - Raw Story

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Bush gives OK for oil companies to pester polar bears Raw Story, MA - 20 hours ago By Andrew McLemore | Uncategorized | Saturday, 14 June 2008 Last month, the Bush administration declared polar bears a threatened species because of global ...
Last month, the Bush administration declared polar bears a threatened species because of global warming.This month, the administration gave permission for companies to “annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas,” the Associated Press reported Saturday.
The article reported the Fish and Wildlife Service as having already issued regulations for legal protection of seven oil companies with a provision that only “small numbers” of polar bears and Pacific walruses be harmed in the process.......

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