Judge works for BP?

If polar bears had been declared endangered it would have increased protections for the bear and made oil and gas exploration more difficult.

I use to wonder why the oil companies were cozy with the environmentalist? Scarce oil means high prices! The oil barons don’t want lower prices!

Barack Obama to review polar bears

A federal judge has ordered the Obama administration to review whether polar bears are endangered under US law.

Published: 5:05PM BST 21 Oct 2010

Photo: BARCROFT

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan wants the Interior Department to clarify a decision by the administration of the former President George W. Bush that polar bears were merely threatened rather than in imminent danger of extinction.

Dirk Kempthorne, the former Interior Secretary, said in May 2008 that the bears were on the way to extinction because global warming was causing the rapid disappearance of the Arctic Sea ice upon which they depend. But he stopped short of declaring them endangered, which had it been declared would have increased protections for the bear and make oil and gas exploration more difficult.