No new Polar protection.(Front)

The Virginian Pilot | May 9, 2009 | Copyright

By H. Josef Hebert

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON

The Obama administration declared Friday it will stick with a Bush-era policy against expanding protection for climate-threatened polar bears and ruled out a broad new attack on greenhouse gases.

To the dismay of environmentalists, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar refused to rescind a Bush administration rule that says actions that threaten the polar bear's survival cannot be considered when safeguarding the mammal if they occur outside the bear's Arctic home.

The rule was aimed ...

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