Environmental groups sue Bush Administration over polar bear/global warming ruling
Environmental groups recently filed suit in federal court alleging that the Department of the Interior was wrong to hold that the placement of polar bears on the endangered species list does not mandate the regulating of greenhouse gases. The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the plaintiffs in the case, argue that because the polar bears are endangered due to the effects of global warming (i.e., melting Arctic sea ice), that the result of their addition to the list requires the taking of measures to decrease the causes of global warming.
Interior Department Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, holding the same point of view as President Bush, argues that the Endangered Species Act was not intended to address global warming and that climate policy should instead be enacted through the political process. The policies surrounding the inclusion of polar bears on the protected list has already proven to be quite controversial.
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