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