摘要：Finally, there’s some positive news for polar bears. A U.S. District Court judge ruled in October that theInterior Department failed to adequately review the environmental impacts of exempting greenhouse-gasemitting industries located outside the polar bear’s range from federal regulation. Defenders challenged the2008 Bush-era rule, and the court is now requiring a full environmental analysis of the polar bear—the firstspecies added to the endangered species list primarily because of threats from climate change—to preventits extinction. In another ruling, based on the bear’s threatened status, a federal court upheld the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service’s decision to prohibit the importation of sport-hunted polar bear “trophies” fromCanada.
