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Posted Sat Mar 8 2008: from San Francisco Chronicle:
Delay in polar bear policy stirs probe http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1205006681
 "The Interior Department's inspector general has begun a preliminary investigation into why the department has delayed for nearly two months a decision on listing the polar bear as threatened because of the loss of Arctic sea ice. A recommendation to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was to have been made in early January by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on whether to declare the bear threatened. But when the deadline came, the agency said it needed another month, a timetable that also was not met."
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