Focus (Forum & Focus)
May 23, 2008
The Bear Necessities of Fighting Climate Change
Use of the wrong instrument to address the problem of climate change is bad public policy, writes Paul S. Weiland. - Forum Column
By Paul S. Weiland
This article appears on Page 4
On May 14, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced the federal government's decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision signals the beginning of what is likely to be a vociferous debate regarding the use of the ESA as a tool to combat global climate change.
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