Faster than Melting Ice ...

Apparently catching wind that the Department of Interior was about to announce a proposed habitat designation for polar bears in the Alaskan Arctic, (see prior blog post here), Alaska rushed into federal court earlier this week and supplemented its earlier suit to overturn the original listing that prompted the designation. Alaska filed papers (to supplement a suit originally brought by former Governor Palin in August 2008) in federal district court in Washington state on Tuesday, and announced that it had done so during a gubernatorial press conference yesterday. At the press conference Governor Parnell warned that habitat designation would in essence shut down resource extraction along Alaska's northern coast, and vowed not to let that happen.