It's Not A Problem If You Don't Talk About It, Right?

The federal agency responsible for protecting Arctic polar bears has barred two Alaska scientists from speaking about polar bears, climate change or sea ice at international meetings in the next few weeks, a move that environmentalists say is censorship.

Tina Kreisher, communications director of the Interior Department, which oversees the wildlife agency, said in an interview Thursday that the government isn't trying to silence scientists from talking about their findings -- but they don't want them to make policy statements.

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle