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Federal court upholds polar bear status as threatened species

2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Baltimore Sun: The federal law listing polar bears as a threatened species was upheld Friday by a federal appeals court, which rejected arguments that it is wrong to impose far-ranging and possibly costly protections for a species that remains fairly abundant in many regions of the Arctic. Concluding that attacks on the listing "amount to nothing more than competing views on policy and science,' the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2008 decision to...

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