sued in 2008 to have the polar bear removed from the endangered species list. They have now taken the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Rivett said that government was damaging the fossil fuel industry and other businesses by keeping the polar bear on the endangered species list.

"The argument is that CO2 emissions from industry is causing global warming," he explained. "Well, industry is basically energy, food producers, transportation, all those things. And if you're going to make that expensive through regulation, all the rest of us are going to be impacted by that. And also, jobs are going to be lost because of that. So simply by listing this species, it's a real problem."

Earlier this month, shocking photos of a 16-month-old polar bear that starved to death went viral. The death was attributed to a lack of sea ice due to climate change.

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