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      Biden Interior Dept Denounced for Giving Big Oil Green Light to Harass Polar Bears, Walruses

      "President Biden promised bold climate action, but this is business as usual. Polar bears and walruses deserve better."

      Brett Wilkins
      Aug 04, 2021

      Wildlife defenders on Wednesday denounced the Biden administration after the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a rule allowing fossil fuel companies operating in northern Alaska to harass polar bears and walruses while searching or drilling for oil and gas.

      "The Arctic should be protected, not turned into a noisy, dirty oil field."
      --Kristen Monsell, CBD

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      Climate Change: Mind-Blowing Warnings from Arctic and Antarctica

      Climate Change: Mind-Blowing Warnings from Arctic and Antarctica

      We all need to be worried.

      Andy Rowell
      Jul 27, 2020

      2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both the Arctic and the Antarctic.

      First the Arctic, where our climate emergency is playing out in real time, with devastating consequences.

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      Trump Extinction Plan Guts Endangered Species Act

      Today, against a backdrop of recent reports of global mass extinction, the Trump administration released final regulations weakening the Endangered Species Act, the nation's most effective tool in saving wildlife from extinction.

      Newswire Editor
      Aug 12, 2019

      Today, against a backdrop of recent reports of global mass extinction, the Trump administration released final regulations weakening the Endangered Species Act, the nation's most effective tool in saving wildlife from extinction. The Trump Extinction Plan would gut critical endangered species protections by making it much more difficult to extend protections to threatened species, delaying lifesaving action until a species' population is potentially impossible to save; making it more difficult to protect polar bears, coral reefs, and other species that are impacted by the effects of climate change; allowing economic factors to be analyzed when deciding if a species should be saved; and making it easier for companies to build roads, pipelines, mines, and other industrial projects in critical habitat areas that are essential to imperiled species' survival.

      These changes come in the wake of tremendous public opposition to weakening the protections of the Endangered Species Act. After the proposed rules were announced, more than 800,000 public comments were submitted opposing the changes. Last fall, 105 Members of Congress and 34 U.S. Senators sent letters to Trump's Department of the Interior to protest the harmful rollbacks. Ten states and the District of Columbia are also on record opposing the weakening of the Endangered Species Act as are more than 30 tribal nations.

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