1.0 link 107154 <![CDATA[Companies Get OK To Annoy Polar Bears]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/14/companies-get-ok-to-annoy_n_107154.html WASHINGTON &mdash; Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses...

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