Global warming

Polar-bear rule limits application

SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2009

The Obama administration has chosen to stay with a Bush-era regulation classifying polar bears as an endangered species but limiting the consideration of global warming in protecting the bears.

The decision upsets environmentalists who had hoped that the plight of the polar bears would become another cause in their campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the Bush administration policy, nothing outside the Arctic region could be considered a threat to polar bears under the Endangered Species law. Environmentalists argue that emissions from activities around the world which cause global warming collectively threatened the polar bear's environment and could be reason to regulate the emissions from factories in the Midwest and automobiles thousands of miles away from the Arctic.

However, the impact of the distant emissions would be difficult to measure while the Endangered Species Act is aimed at limiting more immediate activities such as mining or logging on the environments of threatened or endangered plants and animals.

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