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 Bush's polar bear decision challenged
Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the
Bush administration's decision to let oil companies unintentionally
harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska
coast.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage
claims that federal officials violated laws designed to protect the
animals and their sensitive habitat in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi
Sea.
"These
regulations set the parameters for how oil exploration will be done in
the next five years," said Brendan Cummings, oceans program director at
the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the suit along with
Pacific Environment. "The Chukchi Sea is critical habitat for those
animals. For them to survive in the face of global warming, we simply
cannot allow oil development there." Read rest...
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