Fw: 60 Days to Save the Polar Bear

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60 Days to Save the Polar Bear

 

Last week Congress passed -- and President Obama signed into law -- a bill

giving Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar the authority to immediately

rescind Bush administration regulations that eliminate essential protections

for the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. However, under the

bill, if Salazar doesn't withdraw the Bush regulations within 60 days, the

regulations stay in effect and the polar bear is deprived of the legal

protections it needs to survive

Secretary Salazar must act immediately, or we'll lose this precious

opportunity to instantly remedy one of Bush's worst environmental attacks.

Please sign the petition to Salazar and demand that he immediately rescind

the Bush regulations harming the polar bear.

 

Secretary Salazar needs to hear from you today -- please take action now and

forward this alert to a friend as well.

 

Click here to find out more and sign the petition.

 

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/8257/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1

878.

 

 

Petition:

Please Restore Full Protection for Polar Bears

 

Dear Secretary Salazar:

I strongly oppose the Bush administration's illegal and illogical

regulations under Section 4(d) and Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act

that reduce protections for polar bears and create an exemption for

greenhouse gas emissions.

I request that you revoke these regulations immediately, within the 60-day

window provided by Congress for their removal. The Endangered Species Act

has a proven track record of success at reducing all threats to species, and

it makes absolutely no sense, scientifically or legally, to exempt

greenhouse gas emissions, which are the number-one threat to the polar bear,

from this successful system.

I urge you to take this critically important step in restoring scientific

integrity at the Department of Interior by rescinding both of Bush's illegal

regulations reducing protections for polar bears.

 

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/8257/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1

878.

 

 

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