Mover Mike

A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.

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The ruling is a victory for conservation groups that claim the Bush administration has delayed a polar bear decision to avoid addressing global warming and to avoid roadblocks to development such as the transfer of offshore petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast to oil company bidders.

The Bush administration should stop playing around with the truth!

A conservative Sacramento law firm, Pacific Legal Foundation, plans to join the fray over the fate of polar bears in anticipation of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife decision next week on whether the bears are endangered, according to the Sacramento Bee.

"This listing of the polar bear really isn't about the polar bear," said a foundation attorney. "This is a political ploy on the part of activist groups to try to hijack global warming policy from the hands of Congress and to put it into the hands of the courts."