President Obama may be a stalwart in confronting climate change, but his administration said it won’t be bullied over the issue, at least when it comes to removing the humpback whale from the endangered species list.

The National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, decided Wednesday that nine out of 14 populations of the whale no longer required protections under the law despite growing concerns about global warming.

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