http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/14263/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/polar-bear-scare-could-maul-energy-production <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/nathan-burchfiel">Nathan Burchfiel</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >     He’s on the cover of magazines like Time and Vanity Fair and appears on TV regularly as the image of the environmental movement. Now the polar bear could be pounding a path to your door.</p> <br /> <p >     Under pressure from environmentalists, the U.S. Department of the Interior must decide by May 15 whether to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act. But such protections could mean increased government control over energy and “widespread social and economic impacts” for ordinary Americans.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/polar-bear-scare-could-maul-energy-production" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Energy animal Antarctica arctic bear ClimateChange drown endangered EndangeredSpeciesAct glacier GlobalWarming ice iceberg melt polarbear save Wed, 07 May 2008 15:13:00 +0000 admin 26199 at http://archive2.mrc.org