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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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