{"id":679,"date":"2008-08-13T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/state-of-alaska-fights-act-that-protects-bears\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:18","slug":"state-of-alaska-fights-act-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/state-of-alaska-fights-act-that\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Alaska fights Act that protects bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alaska.jpg\">The state of Alaska has filed a lawsuit in federal district court (District of Columbia) challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. The Act was hailed as a breakthrough political gesture that officially acknowledged global warming as a threat to life.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska&#8217;s Governor Sarah Palin claims that the act to protect the bears will affect offshore oil and gas operations off the northern coast of the  state. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The State of Alaska\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s challenge to the protection of the polar bear is a lost cause based on discredited, industry-funded attacks on science. This case has no merit, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/\">Center for Biological Diversity<\/a>, NRDC, and Greenpeace will be seeking to intervene in the lawsuit and have it dismissed&#8221;, said Kassie Siegel, climate program director at the Center for Biological Diversity, and lead author of the 2005 petition to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The state of Alaska&#8217;s response is disappointing, but certainly no surprise. They have taken their cues from industry every step of the way&#8221;, added Andrew Wetzler, director of NRDC Endangered Species Project.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Alaska has filed a lawsuit in federal district court (District of Columbia) challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. The Act was hailed as a breakthrough political gesture that officially acknowledged global warming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-global-warming","category-green-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9791,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/9791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}