Supreme Court Will Not Review Case Challenging Critical Habitat Of Polar Bears In The Arctic
Source: Tech Times
Supreme Court Will Not Review Case Challenging Critical Habitat Of Polar Bears In The Arctic
2 May 2017, 6:47 am EDT By Steve Bowman Tech Times
In a path breaking motion on Monday, May 1, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The U.S. federal agency for protection of flora and fauna had requested the Supreme Court to designate a major chunk of Arctic ice shelf (120 million acres) as critical polar bear habitat.
The state of Alaska along with the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, other local governments, and native corporations filed a petition against the demands of the USFWS.
However, the Supreme Court did not accept the lawsuits filed by the abovementioned corporations and governments, and chose to support the USFWS. The decision comes shortly after President Trump's latest executive order, which cracks down on new offshore oil drilling taking place in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
The case challenging the USFWS — which the Supreme Court shot down — will now give the polar bears access to 187,000 square miles of clean and undisturbed barrier islands, sea ice, and coastal areas of Alaska to settle and breed.
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