Forwarded from the CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY,

by Jane Clark

BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUPPRESSES POLAR BEAR REPORT
CRITICAL OF ARCTIC REFUGE OIL DRILLING
On 10-30-01, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the
Bush administration for refusing to publicly release a U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service report suggesting that opening the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling could undermine the entire U.S. polar
bear conservation strategy and violate an international polar bear
agreement. Though the report was requisitioned by Congress in
response to complaints about oil drilling and hunting, the Bush
administration has refused to complete the report, send it Congress,
or even release it to the public. Instead, it is pushing Congress to
approve oil drilling before the impacts are revealed.

To find out more about the lawsuit and the suppressed report:
www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/polarbear/index.html

Washington Post article:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8697-2001Oct29.html