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Protecting gray whales could mean protecting the Arctic
A petition to list the eastern North Pacific gray whale on the federal endangered species list went unanswered last year. On Tuesday, three environmental groups threatened to sue the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act for failing to meet a required deadline. If the whales are listed as endangered, protecting the species would […] The post Protecting gray whales could mean protecting the Arctic appeared first on Local News Matters .
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A petition to list the eastern North Pacific gray whale on the federal endangered species list went unanswered last year. On Tuesday, three environmental groups threatened to sue the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act for failing to meet a required deadline. If the whales are listed as endangered, protecting the species would […] The post Protecting gray whales could mean protecting the Arctic appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Protecting gray whales could mean protecting the Arctic, A petition to list the eastern North Pacific gray whale on the federal endangered species list went unanswered last year. On Tuesday, three environmental groups threatened to sue the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act for failing to meet a required deadline. If the whales are listed as endangered, protecting the species would […] The post Protecting gray whales could mean protecting the Arctic appeared first on Local News Matters .
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