October 17, 2011
A Washington federal judge on Monday ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to vacate a controversial special rule on endangered polar bears, finding that the agency violated federal law by failing to do even a basic environmental review before it passed the rule in 2008.
November 04, 2010
In a case that could have implications for the oil and gas industries, a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of the Interior to reconsider a 2008 decision by the Bush administration to list the polar bear as a threatened species instead of an endangered one.