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WASHINGTON — A federal judge is ordering the Obama administration to review whether polar bears, at risk because of global warming, are endangered under federal law.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan wants the Interior Department to clarify a Bush-era decision that polar bears were merely threatened rather than in imminent danger of extinction. Sullivan’s request, made at a hearing Wednesday in federal court, keeps in place a 2008 declaration by the Bush administration that polar bears are threatened.
