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While much maligned for trying to curb protections for endangered species, today the Bush Administration proposed increasing protections polar bears as a “threatened species.”  I would like to see more of this from the Bush team, and I applaud this step. Though a final decision is a year off, the change in listing would require that any new federally authorized projects in the Arctic would not affect polar bears or the sea ice they depend on.  More significantly, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne cited global warming one of the biggest threats to the bears, marking one of the more outspoken instances by the administration of using such language.

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Green Car Congress points out Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest plan to make California the leading innovator for renewables and new technologies in the U.S.  Motivation for the proposal is not just to protect the environment, but also to create jobs and new business.  More Republicans and liberal environmentalists need to recognize and exploit this connection between economic growth and new green-friendly industries.

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Sustainablog gives a plug to the Evangelical Youth Climate Initiative, part of the growing environmentalist movement within the evangelical community.  To all leftist and liberal religion-fear mongers out there: here’s your most important coalition group for green causes.  I am fully supportive of increasing environmentalism in the GOP, and here is a great chance to do so.