Interior Department Secretary Dirk Kempthorne promised 15 months ago that in a year he would determine whether the polar bear is an endangered species. The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin notes that he still hasn’t and environmental groups are suing because of it.

Yesterday, Kempthorne was nowhere to be seen on Capitol Hill even as the Senate’s top environmental committee held a hearing on the polar bear ruling. The reason?  He said it wouldn’t be appropriate to testify on an issue he was being sued about.  Read Eilperin here.  MB

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