More endangered species

The polar bear is a recent addition to the US Threatened Species list. Not before the government auctioned off drilling leases to seven major oil companies in the Chutchi Sea, off the coast oNortwestern Alaska and home to 2,000 polar bears.

Not to worry, now the administraton -The Fish and Wildlife administration- has issued regulations this week releasing those seven oil companies from liability if "small numbers of polar bears and pacific walrus are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years."
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